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7 More JavaScript Web APIs to Build Futuristic Websites you didn't Know 🤯

Tapajyoti Bose on June 25, 2023

Welcome back to the future! This is the second article on futuristic JavaScript Web APIs, so if you haven't read the first one, you are recommended...
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Chidera Humphrey

Never heard of the web speech API.

I will try to learn more about it and use it in my projects.

Thanks for sharing, Tapajyoti.

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codingjlu

JSYK, the recognition model does not run in your browser; it is sent to an external (albeit free) service to process.

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Chidera Humphrey

Tell me more

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codingjlu

The docs have more info. By the way, this isn't available in Firefox.

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artydev

Very nice, thank you🙂

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Julio Herrera

Great, thank you for sharing!

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Hennry Smith

Best JavaScript web API . Thanks for sharing.

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Andrew McCallum

Cool to see web workers covered here. Would be interested to hear the types of things people use them for

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Minhazur Rahman Ratul

Never heard of the Accelerometer API. Mind blown 🤯

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Khulani Mkhize

Thank you for sharing Tapajyoti 👍

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andreseduardop

These are the posts I like. Simple, fast and, above all, useful. Thank you so much.

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Abhishek Kumar

Got to know a lot of api's which i didn't know. Thanks for this post

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Ayyappan Suruttaiyan

Thanks for sharing the APIs. Appreciate it.

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codingjlu • Edited

What is I did know all of them? 🤣

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Saje

I have tried using the Web Speech API and for whatever reason, it performed very poorly. There were several instances where it just stopped/paused by itself. I also had a similar issue with the useSpeechRecognition NPM package (for React).

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Joe Boris

Helpful tip: There are more types of observers. Check them out!

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fjranggara

thank you very much, very nice information