Chrome Speech-to-Text

This agent uses Google Chrome's speech to text capabilities to provide voice recognition for Xi.

Prerequisites

  • Google Chrome
  • node v0.10
  • bunyan for pretty printed logs

Installation

  1. Install the Chrome app.

  2. Clone this repo and run npm install.

Run

  1. Run Chrome and start the app.

  2. Run the Chrome STT agent with:

$ node index.js --logfile chrome-stt.log 2>&1 | bunyan

Caveats

  • Chrome STT uses Google speech recognition built into Google Chrome to do speech-to-text. It is listening as long as the Chrome app is running, and all the while your microphone stream is being sent to Google.