Show HN: I made my website/resume voice controlled

[+] ar7hur|12 years ago|reply

Very interesting Ben! Did you have a look at https://wit.ai ? It's an API that encapsulates both speech rec and semantic interpretation.

[+] ddod|12 years ago|reply

I hadn't seen this yet. It looks really cool and I'll have to devote some time to learning what they're doing.

[+] ddod|12 years ago|reply

This was made using the Web Speech API and a matching system I came up with that uses Levenshtein distances and tokenized string matching. I wrote up some demo code here: https://github.com/benwasser/WebSpeechAPI

[+] yoshokatana|12 years ago|reply

This is brilliant! One feature request though: It'd be cool if the microphone icon toggled the voice recognition, rather than simply enabling it. I couldn't figure out if there was a way to disable it (besides closing the tab and reopening it).

[+] maccard|12 years ago|reply

This is cool and all, but it's another Chrome only site. You might as well have another desktop app that I have to download. Why isn't there support for other major, Modern browsers such as FF, Opera and IE11?

[+] ddod|12 years ago|reply

Sorry about that! It uses the nascent Web Speech API which seems to rely on external audio processing (i.e. how Siri works). Google has such capabilities so that's why it currently works with Chrome (although I think it works in Safari, as well).

[+] brianbreslin|12 years ago|reply

So it only lets me ask one question on chrome mac, then i have to reload the page.

great idea btw. I wondered instantly if this could be turned into a service.

[+] ddod|12 years ago|reply

That's not the intended behavior. I developed it on Chrome for Mac, so it should just listen continuously. If you have a second, could you let me know what OS and browser versions you're on?

Also, I agree that it could be a cool service, but my wrapper is relatively light compared to the work being done by Google, so I'm guessing you'll start to see a lot of competition in this area.

[+] onuryavuz|12 years ago|reply

Cool, I like it. I'm not a native English speaker, but it worked for me better than Siri :)

How many predefined answers do you have?

[+] ddod|12 years ago|reply

Glad you liked it. It uses Google's voice recognition servers, so Android's voice recognition may prove better for you than Siri.

It currently has 64 predefined answers with multiple triggers linked to each one.

[+] gaitme|12 years ago|reply

Best time of my life, saying 10 times "work" for nothing: wall, rock, west, wall, welcome...

French power I guess

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