[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 60170] [Chromium] Speech-enabled input fields need the ability to trigger without a click

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60170





--- Comment #18 from Satish Sampath <satish at chromium.org>  2011-06-21 03:26:55 PST ---
> The goal is simply to abstract what happens when you
> click now so that the "click" could be triggered by a
> keypress instead

I think we should not mimic the click implementation for hotkey. When early prototypes of speech input were being tested we saw many users didn't understand that they can just stop speaking and the browser would detect silence to trigger recognition. Instead they were clicking on the button again thinking it was necessary. That is the reason why we handle a click on the speech button and move to recognition state if audio was already recorded.

In the hotkey case, we can message easily to the user that they need to press the hotkey only to start speaking and once they stop speaking results will be available for them. The implementation is also much simpler as you only need to start recording on hotkey press and don't have to toggle (and can ignore hotkey if audio was already being recorded).

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