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Caption your speech on any website using the Web Speech API. Supports all browsers except for Firefox. To start captioning speech, add this script as a bookmarklet (paste contents in the URL field with "javascript:" at the beginning) and run the bookmark. To stop captioning speech, click the caption box.
javascript:(() => {
const div = document.createElement('div');
div.style.alignItems = 'flex-end';
div.style.backgroundColor = 'black';
div.style.top = '0';
div.style.color = 'white';
div.style.display = 'none';
div.style.fontFamily = 'Google Sans';
div.style.fontSize = '3vh';
div.style.lineHeight = '4vh';
div.style.maxHeight = '4vh';
div.style.overflow = 'hidden';
div.style.padding = '0.5vh 0.75vh';
div.style.position = 'fixed';
div.style.textAlign = 'start';
div.style.zIndex = '10000';
const recognition = new webkitSpeechRecognition();
recognition.continuous = true;
recognition.interimResults = true;
recognition.onresult = event => {
div.style.display = 'flex';
let transcript = '';
for (let i = 0; i < event.results.length; i += 1) {
transcript += event.results[i][0].transcript;
}
div.textContent = transcript;
};
recognition.onend = event => recognition.start();
div.onclick = event => {
recognition.onend = event => {};
recognition.abort();
div.remove();
};
document.body.appendChild(div);
recognition.start();
})();
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