Apps Developer Challenge 2012 – Google Apps Developer Challenge 2012. We're pleased to announce the semi finalists in the Google Apps Developer Challenge 2012.
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New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions. By Dominic Mazzoni, Software Engineer Interested in making your Chrome Extension (or packaged app) talk using synthesized speech?
Chrome now includes a Text-to-Speech (TTS) API that’s simple to use, powerful, and flexible for users. Let’s start with the "simple to use" part. A few clever apps and extensions figured out how to talk before this API was available – typically by sending text to a remote server that returns an MP3 file that can be played using HTML5 audio. With the new API, you just need to add "tts" to your permissions and then write: chrome.tts.speak('Hello, world!
') It’s also very easy to change the rate, pitch, and volume. How about powerful? In fact, the API is powerful enough that ChromeVox, the Chrome OS screen reader for visually impaired users, is built using this API. Here are three examples you can try now: TTS Demo (app) Talking Alarm Clock (extension) SpeakIt (extension) Finally, let's talk about flexibility for users. 20+ Essential Resources for Improving Your SEO Skills.
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An API, or application programming interface, enables software programs to communicate with one another. (Chrys Wu wrote a helpful intro here.) To give you a better understanding of how they can help you, I’ve outlined some of the best APIs for finding content and explained how you can use open-source programming tools to glean information from them. Twitter API Twitter’s API is very well documented and has a lot of useful functionality. Here is some simple example code that searches Twitter for the term “earthquake” and then creates a bulleted list for the tweets that are found. If your development team uses open-source tools, there are some great libraries for parsing the Twitter API with much more advanced functionality than the snippet above.
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