Google builds voice commands into browsers

Google has started developing audio capabilities for browsers. These capabilities could undoubtly serve as industry-standard technology.

The search engine giant is rolling out voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities for mobile and desktop browsers.

As reported Ian Fette, product manager for the Google Chrome team, at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco late last week: "We're hoping that the text-to-speech APIs as well as the voice input, voice recognition ship in Chrome but also become a Web standard that is implementable by any browser out there.”

Besides, he underlined that people want to use voice input systems. "People want to speak their input for certain types of queries."

The company representatives has a firm belief this technology will enable a whole new class of applications.