Speech recognition and synthesis is generating a lot of buzz in the technology nowadays. Everybody knows about Siri, Cortana and Google Now. The goods news is you do not need a Ph.D. degree in computer science to bring similar functionality to your application. The Web Speech API makes it easy to provide speech-input and text-to-speech output features to your webpages. This API allows fine control and flexibility over the speech recognition capabilities in modern and future browsers. The audience will learn how to use Web Speech API speech-input and text-to-speech output to build a Siri-like web-application.