Offline client-side JavaScript ***MAGIC*** equivalent of Speech Recognition API

[marsrobertson]

It's natively supported in Chrome only and uses Google servers: https://caniuse.com/#feat=speech-recognition

It means - no Safari on iOS :(

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49576707/client-side-speech-recognition-on-a-mobile-browser
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33883967/safari-speech-recognition

This looks the closest: https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy

Asked a few days ago: https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy/issues/617

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Maybe it's possible to run TensorFlow.js entirely in the browser?

https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs - that is engineering geekery...

(enjoying the challenge)

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For now, maybe we can assume ONLINE use, then can use Google Cloud:

• https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/
• https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/streaming-recognize - STREAMING

[marsrobertson]

Gave it a try: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/samples

No JavasScript example, all JavaScript resources refer to SpeechRecognition API...

It's a nice to have, definitely don't want to spend more time on that.