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		yebyen on June 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Annyang.js – Let visitors control your site with v... "https://www.talater.com wants to use your microphone." Allow / Deny Using Chromium

techpeace on June 20, 2014 [–]

Yup, that's the HTML Speech Input API asking for permission to access your microphone in order to enable the voice recognition.

yebyen on June 20, 2014 | [–]

Yeah, parent [now deleted] was wondering why random websites can access his microphone, apparently his browser didn't ask

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