Oh! IE is just 9. Firefox is just 4 and we have Chrome ELEVEN.
On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer
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Re: On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer
#22Actually kinda cool. Does anyone actually use Voice Control on an iPhone, or any other speech recognition tech? I've never seen it used in real life except in IVR systems.
I've tried to use it on my Android phone, but it hates my English accent. If I talk to it in a borderline-racist American accent, it does better, but not enough for me to actually get anything done.
Re: On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer
#23Has anyone found a way to either A) Activate the mic control from javascript or B) Enable continuous recording once the user has initiated recording? I understand the security implications of A. However, B would be an acceptable alternative since the user initiates it. I'm imaging a vocal interface that requires minimal user keyboard interaction. I found an attribute called "continue", but it doesn't seem to do anyth…
If you looked at the image you'd notice it's simply an HTML tag. I'd assume the data wouldn't be accessible with javascript.
It's the way it should be, just imagine the vulnerabilities having js enabled microphones would have.
Re: On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer
#24Seems rather random to me. Amusingly, when I said "Munich" it understood "New York" - so perhaps somehow it already realized it is a city :-)
I have had a Nexus One for over a year now, and all the speech recognition does is annoy me if I accidentally hit the microphone icon and have to cancel it.
To be fair, I am not a native speaker of English, maybe it works better for native speakers.
Re: On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer
#25I think the ability to automatically update people's browsers is an extremely valuable weapon of Google's. Compared to the slow, manual releases of FF and IE, Google surely has the advantage that new features will be seen by the public earlier on Chrome than elsewhere.
Does anyone know of Mozilla or Microsoft having any intention of switching to a more continuous release cycle?
(I believe Google uses http://code.google.com/p/omaha/ to push their updates out - quite a fascinating piece of software.)
Re: On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer
#26I think the ability to automatically update people's browsers is an extremely valuable weapon of Google's. Compared to the slow, manual releases of FF and IE, Google surely has the advantage that new features will be seen by the public earlier on Chrome than elsewhere. Does anyone know of Mozilla or Microsoft having any intention of switching to a more continuous release cycle? (I believe Google uses http://code.goog…
There was a thread (AMA) with Firefox guys on reddit last week, and continuous/fast release cycle is one of things that they want to focus on now. They want to start using it this year.
Re: On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer
#27I think the ability to automatically update people's browsers is an extremely valuable weapon of Google's. Compared to the slow, manual releases of FF and IE, Google surely has the advantage that new features will be seen by the public earlier on Chrome than elsewhere. Does anyone know of Mozilla or Microsoft having any intention of switching to a more continuous release cycle? (I believe Google uses http://code.goog…
Mozilla are moving to a more Chrome-like schedule, and I believe they’re going to implement autoupdates as well. They’ve currently got 3 more releases penned for this year.
Re: On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer
#28Actually kinda cool. Does anyone actually use Voice Control on an iPhone, or any other speech recognition tech? I've never seen it used in real life except in IVR systems.
I've tried to use it on my Android phone, but it hates my English accent. If I talk to it in a borderline-racist American accent, it does better, but not enough for me to actually get anything done.
I'm curious which American accent sounds "borderline-racist".
Re: On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer
#29I have been a hardcore Firefox user and fan but Chrome was something I was really looking for. A browser with no confusing colors, hundreds of extensions and more.
I downloaded Firefox 4 and I liked it but after a couple of minutes I didn't resist not going back to Chrome.
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#30Sadly, my computer still doesn't respond when I say "Computer, make me a sandwich." (Yes, I tried sudo.)
Making a sandwitch is hard for a computer, I think you should ask for a glass of water.