Google has rolled out a new addition to its Chrome browser this week in the form of a new Web Speech API, allowing users to use speech when visiting supported websites using the Google Chrome browser.

The Web Speech API will now likely be used by other Web developers to build more pages and content that will allow users to ditch their keyboards for a wide range of functions.

Today's Chrome Stable release includes support for the Web Speech API (discussed last month), which developers can use to integrate speech recognition capabilities into their web apps.

A year after its launch, the Cloud Speech API gets more capabilities that take it beyond Google's internal needs.