Google While the Web Speech API is clearly the focus of today’s launch, Google added many other security and developer-focused features to the beta as well.

Google has rolled out a new addition to its Chrome browser this week in the form of a new Web Speech API, allowing users to use speech when visiting supported websites using the Google Chrome browser.

Following your requests, I’m writing today about how you can bring full speech recognition to your web applications using the Web Speech API.

The Web Speech API will now likely be used by other Web developers to build more pages and content that will allow users to ditch their keyboards for a wide range of functions.

It cleverly relies on the Web Speech API to deliver the speaking parts, which helps keep the code size tiny. The only thing it’s missing is an occasional shadow of static drifting across the audio.