Add MediaStreamTrack support to the Web Speech API

[evanbliu]

WebKittens

@eric-carlson

Title of the proposal

Add MediaStreamTrack support to the Web Speech API

URL to the spec

WebAudio/web-speech-api#118

URL to the spec's repository

https://github.com/WebAudio/web-speech-api/

Issue Tracker URL

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Explainer URL

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TAG Design Review URL

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Mozilla standards-positions issue URL

mozilla/standards-positions#1149

WebKit Bugzilla URL

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Radar URL

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Description

The Web Speech API is a web standard API that allows developers to incorporate speech recognition and synthesis into their web pages. Currently, the Web Speech API uses the user's default microphone as the audio input. MediaStreamTrack support allows websites to use the Web Speech API to caption other sources of audio including remote audio tracks.

[eric-carlson]

We discussed this proposal at TPAC in Anaheim, and it seems a good addition to the Web Speech API. I recommend we mark this as "position: support", but not before January 6 because of the holiday period.

[annevk]

Resolving this as "position: support" given that enough time has passed.