| I built something like this 7 years ago, it's called Hands Free for Chrome, a now languishing project that I lost interest in a long time ago, unfortunately. It made the top 10 of HN back then though! My site's design is not nearly as nice as yours. https://www.handsfreechrome.com/ I just didn't get enough users or support to really care about it. But I wish you the best. It was an exciting thing to build and using it always felt futuristic to me. This is just so fascinating though. It's like seeing what could have been if I had been a better developer and found the dedication to really stick to the project in the longterm. Edit: I see we had the exact same idea! Your "tag" is my "map." Love it. One big difference is that mine was just a free project. I'd be super interested to know how many users you've got. I never had more than ~1100. From looking through your website mine was a much less intensive project. (Oh, CWS says 4000+ for you....wow, wonder how many are paid.) Edit2: Looking over your update history is almost nostalgic. "Fixed issue with overlapping commands -- delaying commands that are partial matches of other commands." Had to do the exact same thing! Edit3: We have so many overlapping command names that I wonder if you took inspiration from my project, almost. Either that or it's just a case of convergent evolution. Edit4: Suggestion for dictation: a way to alternate between a special character and actually writing the word. Doesn't look like there's a way to do ^ vs carrot or & vs ampersand. Something like "Enter special character caret". Maybe you already have a plugin for this though, idk. Edit5: God, this is so well architected! plugins and contexts are just fantastic ideas for this domain. Click by voice using hidden search-for-text is also a perfect solution to that problem. I wonder if this could be made more intelligent, i.e. "Click Submit in the sidebar on the left"-- challenging though. Edit6: Wow, just noticed someone else built something called "Handsfree for Web" somewhere along the way and theirs is ALSO way better than what I had built. Geez. Starting to feel bad about my awful website. |