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Creator here - I ported this over from the open-source Julius using emscripten. AMA

Hi! Just curious on general emscripten work - how long does it take to port something like this? What are the main hurdles, and things that you can get stuck on?

This was my first emscripten project - I would definitely recommend it. I found it to be a great tool. Two things to point out:

- If something is not documented well, it is probably tested well. If you can find the tests that cover it, you can usually get a good idea of how it works. - There is no multithreading. I had to fake it by breaking up my loops with setTimeouts.

There is an IRC channel if you need a place to go for help. Also, feel free to PM.

This is absolutely amazing, great work. This will open up a whole new world of possibilities.

In my time using offline speech-recognition tech, I never was able to use julius properly (docs were a little lacking) so I jumped on to CMUSphinx/pocketsphinx, but I think you've just done a huge amount of work to bring Julius out of obscurity (at least in my mind). Thanks very much

[EDIT] - I really can't get across enough how awesome this is, please add a gittip link or bitcoin address or something

Nice, thanks for doing this! Are you aware of any sites using speech rec for e.g. page navigation?

No, but I think it's a great idea. If you end up using JuliusJS for this, please let me know. I still need to make some example applications to showcase what JuliusJS can do - I'll have them listed in the README when they're done.

I also came across PocketSphinx, which has been around a little longer - that may have some users in the wild already, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was used for navigation somewhere.

[PocketSphinx] https://github.com/syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js/

Sounds good, thanks! Also, I think you'd get more interest here if there were a simple demo page that people could click through to -- that's the nice thing about JS, after all. Maybe something hosted on a github.io page that just transcribes into a textarea?

Yes, don't worry too much about fancy samples textarea would still be great. Nice work.

This is the ultimate accessibility. Imagine a blind person speaking to the website and having the website talk back.

The PIA Chrome extension enables you to open and manage some sites with speech. It was done at a hackathon using wit.ai

http://getpia.com

I'm using Chrome's speech recognition engine for a virtual reality in WebGL thing I'm building. It's a bit annoying, as it requires a network connection, and is rather buggy (I end up crashing Chrome about one ever ten sessions when using it, all of Chrome, every tab). Something like this would fit my needs a lot better.

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