Chrome Takes On Firefox in HTML5 Duel

“When a web page uses this feature, you simply click on an icon and at the time speak into your computer’s microphone,” said Chrome software engineer Satish Sampath in a blog post. “The recorded audio is sent to speech servers for transcription, afterwards which the text is typed out for you.”

Google offered this web page to let users try this capability, which is a demonstration of the search engine’s cloud-computing prowess.

Such capabilities, which are as well being tested in speech-to-text translation for smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system, are expected to go a long way to improving the efficiency of using web applications.

The shine may have come off Chrome afterwards the web browser slipped up in its race to seize market share from Internet Explorer and Apple Safari

Microsoft’s shrinking share of the browser market suggests that the days of Internet Explorer’s dominance are coming to an end, says Nicholas Kolakowski