{"id":1774,"date":"2008-03-22T18:44:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T16:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/22\/opera-9-voice-commands\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T17:02:25","slug":"opera-9-voice-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/22\/opera-9-voice-commands\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera 9: voice commands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered (I have to admit that I had not to look very far) a small feature of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/download\/\">Opera<\/a> browser (from version 9): the voice interface. This is fascinating, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/download\/\">Opera<\/a> accepts voice commands and can read the contents of a web page.<\/p>\n<p>You have to first install a small add-in module (that is immediately downloaded from the Internet and available from a button in the icon bar of Opera) to reach these features. After a few seconds or minutes, the Internet user will be able to use his or her browser by pressing on a key to start the browser listening to your orders. Simple: <code>Insert<\/code> key, <em>Baby open page<\/em>, <code>Insert<\/code> key, and a new page opens. You must keep a relatively good American English accent, but it works quite well (even with a lot of background noise).<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, you can request <em>Baby read<\/em> to listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/download\/\">Opera<\/a> reading the first lines of the page or the selected paragraph you previously selected.<\/p>\n<p>Nota bene: I told Opera that I prefered to use <em>Baby<\/em> as a prefix to all commands rather than the bland <em>Opera<\/em> prefix; I find this cuter.<\/p>\n<p>A feature that you must try too. In a free browser of very high quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered (I have to admit that I had not to look very far) a small feature of the Opera browser (from version 9): the voice interface. This is fascinating, Opera accepts voice commands and can read the contents of a web page. You have to first install a small add-in module (that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,29,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-html-and-css","category-internet","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}