Add dictation, speech to text to Input, Textarea — SpeechRecognition API web browser

pulkit kathuria
web-developer
Published in
3 min readAug 15, 2020

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In this story, we are going to demonstrate how you can add built-in speech recognition API to any text area, input field straight from the web browser.

You can use the browser’s inbuilt speech recognition API to enable dictation to the text area. It is helpful for the applications where you want to dictate your blog instead of typing it.

Wouldn’t it be nice if Medium can allow speech to text to write stories? We are trying to solve a similar problem by using…

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pulkit kathuria
web-developer

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