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by asn0 2112 days ago
Tweet seems pretty click-baity. Reality seems much more boring -- Google probably isn't going to be our evil overlords just yet.

Summary of [1] (detail from the "redacted" site) and [2] (linked from [1]):

Google was the first to implement a W3C spec (not a standard, nor on a standards track [2]), and I guess this Web site is one of the first to use the spec.

Other actively-maintained browsers are in various stages of implementation or haven't announced plans.

1. https://webcaptioner.com/help/getting-started/web-speech-api

2. https://wicg.github.io/speech-api/