Chrome 11 (beta) Has “Talk to me”

from JoeUser Forums

 

 

 

Well Scotty, you’ll still have to use the keyboard, but HTML5 has made it possible (without added speech ware like Dragon Speak) to talk to your Chrome 11 (beta) browser.

On special sites (in the meantime just Google sites) like Google Translate (no more excuses, lecajef) a small microphone will appear in the lower right hand corner of the browser (Chrome 11 only) and you will be able to speak into the computer and it will appear in the translation box.

Google Translate will be adding a button in the next 24 hrs. to allow this. Also, You have ‘drag to’ and ‘drag from’ the browser to the desktop and vice versa, as well as location services and super 3D graphics.

Check out the slide show here: http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide  and use Chrome 11 beta while viewing it to try out the features.

And a la Scotty in Star Trek 4:

 

 

It’s far from perfect, but it’s a start, and it’s only in beta. It's got recognition problems at this point, and you should be in a quiet place.

Oh yes, and Scotty.... don't chuck that keyboard just yet.

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 Wait a minute Doc, you don't need to have a microphone hooked up to the computer?   :O

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

wow mate, thats an old...old...oooooold beta. it's up to 12.0.742.9 now

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Philly0381, reply 2
 Wait a minute Doc, you don't need to have a microphone hooked up to the computer?  
End of Philly0381's quote

What do you think, Philly?  8|

I wrote "speech recognition", not telepathy. 

 

Quoting Nimbin, reply 3
wow mate, thats an old...old...oooooold beta. it's up to 12.0.742.9 now
End of Nimbin's quote

Yes. Have you been using the speech capability? If so, where? 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Probably the only application Chrome possesses that Opera doesn't that I'm interested in. It would be very helpful in finding things a user doesn't know how to spell, like foreign names. Took me a very long time back in highschool to find Amiri Baraka. 

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wow that's pretty neat - I'm always interested in new things from google.

*on a side note-

Hey Doc,

You should check out Maxthon 3 - there are some really neat features, and it's pretty fast. For example, you can right click and draw something as a command (new tab, forward/back, ect.)

http://www.maxthon.com/mx3/index.htm

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting G3mpi3, reply 6
You should check out Maxthon 3 - there are some really neat features, and it's pretty fast. For example, you can right click and draw something as a command (new tab, forward/back, ect.)
End of G3mpi3's quote

I couldn't find skins for it, It won't keep my WC logon and makes me logon a second time to Forums. Not great so far.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 7
Not great so far.
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Ah - Yeah, I see. ^_^'

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Shouldn't this program be called Chrome Beta 11? I mean when is it not Beta? LOL

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Very true. They're very honest about that, and it's into the 12's now. lol.

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

I have tried, but I just can't get use to Chrome's layout. Here is where my problems lie:

See those icons in the red box? I don't like them there, its annoying and taking up valuable real estate. I only want to have the ones I use most. The rest can be under a menu or something. But I don't know how to get rid of them. I would also like to move the tabs to below my bookmark folders just like I did with Firefox 4. If I can get these changes done, perhaps I can be persuaded to switch over. Of course there are a few things I still cant do on Chrome that I can on Firefox 4.

 

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 4
I wrote "speech recognition", not telepathy.
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I'll wait for Telepathy. ;)

Nice Cameo of you in the video too!

Tried Chrome on a site and it bombed (well - it just did not work but did not crash).  When are we going to get people to stop just developing for IE? (The site would not work in Palemoon either).