Chrome 11 released - New speech input feature.

**Resurrection** · 29.04.11, 05:02

Google has patched 27 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it boosted the "stable" build of the browser to version 11 on Windows, Mac and Linux.The company paid out a record $16,500 in bounties to researchers who reported a majority of the bugs, beating the previous biggest payday by several hundred dollars.

While Google listed more than 3,700 changes in Chrome 11, the only one it highlighted was the speech input feature.

Google Chrome Blog: Everybody’s talking (and translating) with Chrome

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Today, we’re excited to make a nifty feature widely available in today’s new Chrome stable release: speech input through HTML.

Curious about how speech input can be used in real life? Here’s one example: Using Chrome, you can now translate what you say into other languages with Google Translate. If you’re translating from English, just click on the microphone on the bottom right of the input box, speak your text, and choose the language you want to translate to. In fact, you can even click on the “Listen” feature to hear the translated words spoken back to you!

Speech input through HTML is one of many new web technologies in the browser that help make innovative and useful web applications like Google Translate’s speech feature possible. If you’d like to check out more examples of applications built using the latest and greatest web technologies in the browser, you can check out more than 200 submissions by web developers on chromeexperiments.com. If you’re not already using Chrome, don’t forget to first download Chrome at google.com/chrome.

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I know what anon's post is going to be in this thread.

"Opera has had a similar feature for years now "

Opera Tutorials - Using Opera with Voice

However the introduction of this feature in Chrome along with Google Translate could prove to be better...

**yoco** · 29.04.11, 13:10

Do I need to download this version or does it update automatically?

**Resurrection** · 30.04.11, 11:30

Click on the 'spanner' icon on the top-right of chrome...

Then 'About Google Chrome'

Your chrome will check for update,then install the new update automatically...

**Sazzy** · 30.04.11, 13:13

It checks and updates even without doing that, though doing that might speed it up (as it doesn't constantly check, but opening that window will force one)

Anyway, long story short, in case of Chrome, you can just forget about version number and trust that it will be up to date

**anon** · 30.04.11, 20:10

Originally Posted by Resurrection

I know what anon's post is going to be in this thread.

"Opera has had a similar feature for years now "

And I've never used it, ever. I don't even have a microphone installed in my PC. No sense in speaking my posts aloud when the keyboard can write them in a much more faster and efficient way.