Chrome browser version 11 has a cool new feature:speech input through HTML.
This means that you can now talk into your microphone and order commands on websites that support the new speech API.
Only limited to Google Translate at the moment and in the English language.
The use the speech feature first make sure that you have a microphone hooked to your computer and using Chrome 1
Next, go to Google Translate and change the “From” language from “Detect language” to “English”.
You should now see a microphone icon appearing at the lower-right corner of the input box.
Click the microphone icon and speak what you want translated. When you're done talking, Google will automatically translate the spoken words. You can even click on the “Listen” button to hear the translated words spoken back to you.
Other sites where you can test the new speech feature is Web2Voice and HTML5 demos.
