Fact · Dictation in your apps
The Web Speech API specification is a Community Group draft report dated 15 October 2026, not a finished W3C standard.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Web Speech API Draft Community Group Report , 15 October 2026”
Web Speech API (W3C Community Group draft), W3C Web Speech API Community Group, 2026, Title block.
Open the original- What it measures
- The title block of the specification page at webaudio.github.io, read on 2026-10-17.
- What it does not show
- The draft can change. Browsers implement it at different speeds, so the spec and the shipped behavior do not always match.