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Google launches ‘The Peanut Gallery’ Chrome experiment to showcase Web Speech API (Video)

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Google updated Chrome last month with a Web Speech API in over 30 languages that allows developers to integrate speech-recognition features into their Web apps, and now the company has launched a silent movie-era Chrome experiment, called “The Peanut Gallery”, that looks to showcase the month-old API.

The official Google blog has the story:

Last month, the Web Speech API brought voice recognition to Chrome users in more than 30 languages. We thought it would be fun to demonstrate this new technology by using an old one: silent film. The Peanut Gallery lets you add intertitles to old black-and-white movie clips just by talking out loud while you watch them. Create a film and share it with friends, so they can bring out their inner screenwriters too.

To begin experimenting: Go to Peanutgalleryfilms.com, select a clip from one of the many classic silent film choices, such as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, and allow access to a mic. Once finished getting started, the clip will play and users can finally add intertitles with their own speech.

Check out the video above as an example.

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