Google technologists are confident that audio ability they are developing for browsers might serve up as industry-standard technology.

The company is increasing voice credit and text-to-speech capabilities for mobile and desktop browsers, said, product manager for the Google Chrome team, at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco late last week. Chrome is Google's Web browser.

"We're hopeful that the text-to-speech APIs as well as the voice input voice credit ship in Chrome but also become a Web standard that is implementable by any browser out there," Fette said. He might not present an estimation on when the capabilities would be in Chrome.

Fette stressed that people desire to use voice input systems. "People desire to speak their input for sure types of queries," he said.

"There's voice recognition and there's text-to-speech so we figured, why not construct that into the browser," Fette said, addition that the company is hopeful its technology will allow a whole novel class of applications.