I’ve had a really busy year for public speaking, having had the pleasure of being invited to speak at ten events so far, from local grassroots meetings to professional conferences (with more to come). Not all of the talks are recorded but many are, so below I’ve selected a few videos from the last few months in the vain hope that you may find them interesting.
It can’t have escaped your notice that iOS7 was recently released, and with it a new version of Safari. Among many additions and changes to its standards support comes (partial) implementation of the new Web Speech API. This API has two core features: speech recognition, which uses a web service to transcribe voice input; and speech synthesis, which uses system libraries to output an artificial voice. Safari for iOS7 brings support for the latter, so I’m going to briefly explain through how that works.