Hi all,<div> I just read through the proposal roughly. I like the proposal very much. I just have some questions and ideas about it.</div><div><br></div><div>1. I'm thinking about the possibility of a UA to offload the speech recognition task to an external local service or application, such as an input method or a text service or even a browser extension. I'm just wondering if the user interaction flow would still be same when it happens outside the UA. For example if an input method supports voice input, it may generate voice input results as well as some other events(eg. fake keyboard or mouse events) during an speech session.</div>
<div>2. Besides just input, is it possible to perform other actions via speech? For example to activate a button or clear the content in the input element? It would be cool if some rules can be defined to trigger different actions or even javascript callbacks by speech.</div>
<div>3. How to manage the speech input focus? What will happen if there are multiple elements accept speech in a page? Is it possible to traverse among them only by speech?</div><div>4. Is it possible to extends this proposal to other input mechanism? Like handwriting or even visual(gesture) recognition input? Even if it's not necessary for now, we may need to consider the potential impact when we want to add this kind of thing in the future.</div>
<div>5. I'm just wondering if it's better to use the speech related properties as hints to the UA rather than requirements. It should be ok for a UA to provide speech input feature for input elements without the speech property and for another UA to simply ignore those properties.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>James Su</div>