Speech technology in Opera's new browser

Opera announced a beta release of their next browser for Windows. Among lots of other new features, the browser has ASR and TTS support integrated. I haven't downloaded it myself yet but the press release mentions both command/control like stuff, as well as voice-enabled web content. XHTML + Voice support perhaps? We'll be looking at this later - stay tuned.

Mozilla's Firefox does seem to have stolen the show recently, however on mobile devices you'll have much better luck with Opera.

If you're an Opera user, you might want to check out Rijk van Geijtenbeek's blog. He's with Opera and is pretty active on their news server, and shares interesting tips in his journal.