design-reviews#1121: WG New Spec: Web Speech API contextual biasing

Opened Jul 14, 2025

Follows the Web Platform Design Principles.
Includes Security and Privacy Considerations sections based on answers to the Security/Privacy Questionnaire.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/WebAudio/web-speech-api/
Primary contacts:
- yrw@google.com, spec change collaborator
- evliu@google.com, spec change collaborator
- padenot@mozilla.com, spec change collaborator
Organization/project driving the specification: Chromium
Primary standards group developing this feature: Audio Working Group
Incubation and standards groups that have discussed the design: Original spec change PR: https://github.com/WebAudio/web-speech-api/pull/145 Spec update PR: https://github.com/WebAudio/web-speech-api/pull/169

Multi-stakeholder feedback:
- Mozilla comments: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1255
- WebKit comments: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/517
Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this specification: N/A
Status/issue trackers for implementations: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5225615177023488

No response

Discussed Jul 21, 2025 (See Github)

Lola: I'm just reviewing it, something that just need to be looked over.

Yves: Issue of poisoning things, so you need to be careful where you declare it. Apart from that, it seems okay.

Discussed Jul 28, 2025 (See Github)

Lola: yves and i looked at this. it's fine. Are we hapy to close as satisfied?

[Group agrees]

Comment by @lolaodelola Aug 4, 2025 (See Github)

Hi @evanbliu, thank you for your patience here. We're happy to resolve contextual biasing in the Web Speech API as satisfied.

#1121: WG New Spec: Web Speech API contextual biasing