Voice to text keyboard

[Stryder]

In the discussion on this link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/6ok49m/steamvrspotify_control_your_music_from_vr/

the OP mentions that he thinks he can make an openvr speech to text keyboard plugin. I don't want to volunteer you without checking: can I mention that you would also be interested in his work? (I thinking that the Spotify pluggin he mentions in the title post isn't needed here.)

Edit: I like the keyboard that you created, I just thought this might be a neat addition. Not sure the Vive mic would be good enough, to be honest.

[MyDream]

Interested!

I would love that feature! I've been wanting to do voice to text, but have been busy doing other features.

[Stryder]

I'll post!
Btw, everything I'm seeing about WindowsVR (the new Acer and Hp hmd's coming out) sounds like everything will be written in C++ or C#, along with support for Java, html and xaml. Or is everything written in Xaml and supports C++ and C#? You'll find out! The point being; everything that I'm seeing says that you should expect to export this to Windows10! That should solve your "boredom" problem.

[shaneharris]

since chrome is integrated could you adapt this into the keyboard code? https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html - add it as a mic button on the keyboard. possibly a wake up phrase? its like 10 lines to implement.

Edit: to clarify this is a pure Javascript/HTML5 implementation using chromes webkitSpeechRecognition API - https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2013/01/Voice-Driven-Web-Apps-Introduction-to-the-Web-Speech-API

[MyDream]

Thanks, I'll research it. I've enabled mic input on the browsers, but somehow everything except Google's own speech to text worked before. Worth another look!

[shaneharris]

Yeh it has been up and down it seems https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=570976

[ohhello]

This would be great and complete the VR toolbox experience from me. I would recommend a dedicated button to quickly access the mic (instead of having to point the laser at a mic icon in the keyboard) since it would be used so often. For example pressing grip and holding the controller to your face like you're speaking into a microphone off the top of my head. Or making the mic icon very large and just pointing to it rather than clicking it.