Remove SpeechGrammar from the Web Speech API spec #117
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@marcoscaceres - I resolved the merge conflicts from the PR you sent 5 years ago and sent out a new one. Are you able to approve this PR? |
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LGTM, but let's wait for @marcoscaceres's response before merging.
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This PR removes SpeechGrammar from the Web Speech API spec. The concept of SpeechGrammar was introduced in order to decrease the word error rate of speech recognition at a time when speech recognition was much less accurate. With the latest advancements in speech recognition, this is no longer necessary for most modern speech recognition engines to achieve low word error rates. In addition, this portion of the spec is ill defined and not implemented by most (if any) implementations of the Web Speech API.
The previous PR to remove the Web Speech API faced an objection from Chromium to delay the removal. Chromium is now in favor of removing this section. Representatives from the web development community including folks from Mozilla and Apple unanimously supported for removing this from the spec at the 2024 TPAC conference.
Closes #32
Closes #57
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