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Is there any way to enable voice to text (speech recognition) in gmail when using Chrome as a webbrowser? I really like the feature to search at google.com via voice and I'd also love to speak my mails instead of typing. I tried several chrome extensions, e.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speech-recognition-for-gm/ffnepgjlfiinpkplhjmehkdhnaaongdk?hl=d but none worked. I don't know why because the feature would be the same because the voice recognition API obviously already exists; so it should be easy to make it useable in gmail also!? At least from googles point of view... Any ideas?

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tim
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You can go here to use Google's "Web Speech API Demonstration" -- it works very fast and well and in multiple languages:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

There's even a "Create Email" button!

Update: I couldn't resist, so I wrote a Chrome extension that does exactly this. Try it out and let me know. :-)

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On Windows and Mac you can use the speech recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking (I'm writing this answer with it, as well as all my e-mails, reports, etc., even coding to some extent). On Linux there exist some programs tapping Google's voice technology but I haven't tried it myself.

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Franck Dernoncourt
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With the Chrome Extension "Checker Plus for Gmail" http://goo.gl/nOIov4 you can do this.

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Many of the answers and existing solutions have suffered from bit rot.

As of mid-2015, the "virtual keyboard" in Chrome will take voice input, and it works with any input field (including Gmail). See: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/6076237?hl=en&source=genius-rts

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I have found that some developers use the Google Translate Voice to include it in their games.

Either because they want to call the player by their name or making a piece of code for their game would be too hard. If the Internet is disconnected while you play the Java/Flash game, it's less impressive.

A modder for Half-Life 2 created a mod where all the dialogue for the NPCs was generated by Google Translate.

The Lazy solution is the way to go.

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