Introducing the HTML5 Web Speech API your practical introduction to adding browser-based speech capabilities to your websites and online applications
Leverage the power of HTML5 Web Speech API to quickly add voice capabilities to your websites. This project-oriented book simplifies the process of setting up and manipulating the API in the browser using little more than a text editor or free software. You'll be presented with a starting tools...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA
Apress L.P.
2020
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 4: Combining the APIs: Building a Chatbot
- Why use a chatbot?
- Things to consider when building a chatbot
- Downsides to bots
- Different types of chatbots
- Setting the background
- Keeping things in scope
- Architecting our demo
- Alternative tools available
- Adding text editor support
- Getting tools in place
- Building our chatbot
- Configuring our chatbot
- Exploring the code in detail
- Dissecting our HTML markup
- Pulling apart script.js: The Web Speech API
- Understanding how our bot is configured
- Exploring how RiveScript works: A summary
- Dissecting the brain.rive file in detail
- Taking things further
- Adding language support
- Updating our demo
- Dissecting the code
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Project: Leaving Review Feedback
- Setting the scene
- Keeping things in scope
- Architecting our demo
- Building our review panel
- Breaking apart the code in detail
- Exploring the HTML
- Exploring the JavaScript
- Adding it to a product page
- Adding language support
- Updating the demo
- Dissecting the code
- Leaving reviews: A postscript
- Taking things further
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Project: Building Alexa
- Supporting the Speech Synthesis API
- Breaking down the numbers
- Supporting the Speech Recognition API
- Understanding the numbers
- A couple of prerequisites
- Checking support for the APIs
- Determining space available
- Setting available space using code
- Configuring Chrome's Responsive Mode
- Implementing the Speech Synthesis API
- Adapting design for mobile
- Implementing the Speech Recognition API
- Adapting for mobile use
- Putting it together: A practical example
- Dissecting the code in detail
- Working with mobile: An epilog
- Summary
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Understanding the API terminology
- Exploring the Speech Synthesis API
- Breaking apart the API
- Improving our SpeechSynthesis demo
- Dissecting our code
- Exploring the Speech Recognition API
- Breaking apart the API
- Updating our SpeechRecognition demo
- Understanding the code
- Creating a more practical example
- Exploring the code in detail
- Going multilingual
- Exploring support for languages
- Setting a custom language
- Breaking apart our code
- The difference between language and dialect
- Making use of grammar objects
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Supporting Mobile Devices
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Introducing the APIs
- Setting up our development environment
- Implementing our first examples
- Reading back text as speech
- Understanding what happened
- Converting speech to text
- Allowing access to the microphone
- Setting access: An alternative method
- Breaking apart our code
- Allowing for browser support
- Providing fallback support
- Understanding security concerns
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Exploring the APIs in More Detail