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Mike Pultz
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Mike Pultz writes mike pultz, a personal blog at mikepultz.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Accessing Google Speech API”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this 2011 post as a how-to for calling Google's undocumented speech API from Chrome, often for speech recognition on a Raspberry Pi or other personal projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Accessing Google Speech API4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-04-11
What Hacker News says?
The google speech API is the best that I've been able to get working on the Pi [1]. It needs a network connection though. [1] http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chr...
Comment linking /2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chrome-11/
on “Linux Voice”Submitted Accessing Google Speech API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI managed to dig up this blog post ( http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chr... ) that seems to explain how to use it for your own purposes.
Comment linking /2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chrome-11/
on “Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)”Submitted Using DKIM in Exim as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI found this on Quora, looks like it's up your alley, and there is a free trial: http://koemei.com/pricing Also, this gentleman talks about accessing the undocumented Google Speech API: http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chr...
Comment linking /2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chrome-11/
on “Ask HN: Are there any free APIs that do speech transcription?”