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Giftawk – Speech to Gif

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> Please use Google Chrome :)

For those of you, like me, who don't use Chrome, this post appears to have some samples of giftawk output:

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/08/19/a-true-gif-t/

Also WIRED: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/giftawk/

Sadly Google Chrome is the only Browser with the Speech Recognition API.

Perhaps your browser suggestion should include this useful info. It's one thing to say this as a blanket statement to people using old IE versions and having trouble--or as a recommendation on a site people need access to--but when trying to show off a thing among a group who make pretty intentional decisions about what browser to use it's just going to make people shrug and move on.

It's impressive that literally every comment is about this message. Not a single person has commented on the actual functionality.

Works okay on Chromium too, no need to use the Google-branded one.

FYI The smiley only makes it worse. Brad Frost has recently written a post about how important it is to write user-friendly error messages ( https://medium.com/@thomasfuchs/how-to-write-an-error-messag... ). If Chrome is required, at least tell me why.

> Please use Google Chrome :)

:( Please avoid lock-in

>Please use Google Chrome:)

No, because I don't normally use that browser. So, I guess the user doesn't get to know why, will just ignore the site and move on to something else.

I do actually know, but I'm pointing out the major problem from the user's perspective. If a everyday non-technical person visits, they're just going to assume the page is broken. You usually only get one (very short) attempt at getting the user interested enough to interact with your site.

They should be displaying the simple explanation why their site won't work on Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera, etc.

> Please use Google Chrome :)

Nope.

> Please use Google Chrome :)

I don't care then.

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