Io(C)T
Internet of Conversational Things

let msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance('Hello World');
window.speechSynthesis.speak(msg);
        

Speech synthesiser

Original source:
http://github.com/mdn/web-speech-api

Speech Recognition

Apple's Conversational UI (1987)

Live Speech-to-Text Demo

Interesting Source Code

var colors = [ 'aqua', 'azure', 'beige']; //snip
var grammar = '#JSGF V1.0; grammar colors; public  = ' +
    colors.join(' | ') + ' ;'

var recognition = new SpeechRecognition();
var speechRecognitionList = new SpeechGrammarList();
speechRecognitionList.addFromString(grammar, 1);
recognition.grammars = speechRecognitionList;
        

More Interesting Source Code

button.onclick = function() {
  recognition.start();
  console.log('Ready to receive a color command.');
}

recognition.onresult = function(event) {
  var last = event.results.length - 1;
  var color = event.results[last][0].transcript;

  diagnostic.textContent = 'Result received: ' + color + '.';
  bg.style.backgroundColor = color;
  console.log('Confidence: ' +
              event.results[0][0].confidence);
}
        

Amazon Alexa

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Io(C)T
Internet of Conversational Things

Libby Davis, School Report