Web Speech Api

Two weeks ago I wrote about adding voice commands to my daughter’s media player, so a parent in the car can say “[tab name] [song title]” instead of scrolling a phone screen while driving. In that post I said a few tabs were left out on purpose. One of them was a math picture-book tab: 42 books, each with a story audio track and a song. At the time, the reason sounded sensible. The reason didn’t hold up for long. ...

My daughter’s media player has several tabs now — a general folder of nursery rhymes, hymns, classical pieces and kids’ pop songs; a folder of folk songs I made pictures for myself; a Bible-verse song folder; and a couple of separately purchased audiobook and story collections. On her own device, she picks what she wants by tapping a cover picture, the same as always. That device is Wi-Fi only, though, and it stays home — it isn’t a phone with its own data plan, so it never comes along in the car. The problem was everywhere outside our own Wi-Fi. ...