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speach to text

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senkoukura
senkoukura
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I'm looking for a way to speak the question into the browser in the event i am ether feeling lazy or don't know how to spell a specific word in my question

I'm looking for a way to speak the question into the browser in the event i am ether feeling lazy or don't know how to spell a specific word in my question

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FredMcD
FredMcD
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There are text to speech add-ons.

But what you want is a program that you have to buy at a store.

senkoukura
senkoukura Question owner
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So there is not away to use my microphone to search within Firefox like I can do with Google chrome?

FredMcD
FredMcD
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As I said, you need to buy a program for your system from the store.

cor-el
cor-el
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See:

  • bug 1286832 - [Win10] Cortana search no longer works with Firefox
  • bug 1287622 - Remove Cortana-related code from mozilla-central (52+)

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Modified by cor-el

Happy112
Happy112
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Also see :
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/firefox-and-the-web-speech-api/