With the new updates in the Chrome beta channel, Google has added a couple of new capabilities, especially for web developers. Google, along with the HTML Speech Incubator Group, has added support for the HTML5 speech input API.
What it means for the developers is that, with this API they can create web apps with the ability to transcribe voice to text. A web page using this feature allows you to turn the words spoken through a computer's microphone into readable text. You simply click on an icon and then speak into your computer’s microphone, the recorded audio is sent to speech servers for transcription after which the text is typed out for you.
You can try it out yourself in this little demo. Today’s beta release also offers a sneak peek of GPU-accelerated 3D CSS, which allows developers to apply slick 3D effects to web page content using CSS.
