Regarding NetNavi development...

[NetOperator Wibby]

I’ve been thinking a lot about NetNavi development lately and the core feature is voice/speech recognition. Unfortunately, the SpeechRecognition spec isn’t supported without prefixes in Chrome or at all in the other major browsers https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecognition

Until it is supported, development is effectively blocked. Now, I could use PocketSphinx but I’ve yet to use a demo of it that’s well done. At least to the level of Chrome’s. I also don’t like the idea of Google storing people’s speech on their servers (Fun fact: when you use SpeechRecognition in Chrome, your voice and whatever you said is uploaded to their servers. This could very well aid in accurately transcribing your speech, but it seems unnecessary and creepy to me).

SpeechSynthesis is supported in Chrome and Firefox for the time being https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis I’d like to tinker with making generated voices sound differently, because everyone would want to customize how their NetNavi sounds.

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With that said, maybe I don't need V1 of a NetNavi to have rudimentary speaking abilities. Maybe V1 could just be the avatar one uses to traverse the 'Net...idk, this will take some thinking.

To actual code the NetNavi, I was thinking of it basically being an Electron app (http://electron.atom.io). I've built my Aries browser with it about a year ago and Electron has improved immensely since. Electron makes it easy to create cross-platform applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. When you NetNavi enters the 'Net, the NetNavi application on your computer would minimize. Of course, that's a whole 'nother bit of complexity I haven't thought about yet.
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