Chess.com Voice Input

Enable square clicks on chess.com via speech recognition or form input. Uses a simple double-digit coordinate system for the moves.
What is Chess.com Voice Input?
Chess.com Voice Input is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to enable square clicks on chess.com using speech recognition or form input. It utilizes a simple double-digit coordinate system for moves, making it easier for speech recognition to pick up. The extension also provides a toggle button to switch between number and letter coordinates. You can simulate mouse clicks on the board square by announcing or entering valid coordinates. The extension loads directly beneath the chessboard and can be used during live games, daily games, and post-game analysis on chess.com.

Extension stats

Users: 144 ▼ -7
Rating: 2.50 (2)
Version: 2.0.0 (Last updated: 2023-03-15)
Creation date: 2021-11-15
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Size: 570.37K

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Extension summary

This Google Chrome extension increases accessibility on the chess.com site by enabling you to click a board square via your browser's speech recognition or your keyboard. A two-digit coordinate system is used for the move input (a1 = 11, b3 = 23, c5 = 35, etc.), which is straightforward for speech recognition to pickup.

Special notes:

  • If you display the inside or outside board coordinates using chess.com's board settings, you can then click the extension's "Toggle number/letter" button to switch the column coordinate letters to numbers. This will help you quickly see which two-digit coordinates correspond to which squares. You can always toggle back to letters with the same button.
  • To simulate a mouse click on a board square, you have two options: 1) announce the double-digit coordinates after clicking the mic icon button (you only have to do this once, click it again to turn it off), or 2) use your keyboard (or your operating system's speech recognition) to enter the double-digit coordinates into the form input field. You can still use your mouse like normal whenever you want.
  • The board square will look like a mouse clicked on it if you announce a valid coordinate. Anything invalid that is announced or entered will simply be ignored.
  • If using the form input field, note that the moment two non-whitespace characters are entered into it, the field will automatically clear itself.

The extension will load directly underneath the board when playing live or daily games, as well as for live and daily post-game analysis. This applies to URLs that begin with one of the following:

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/ https://www.chess.com/game/live/ https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/daily/ https://www.chess.com/game/daily/

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User reviews

Too confusing. Makes no sense why the developer would use a coordinate system and not a standard notation or at the very least, give both options.
by Mr Judge, 2024-11-20

Excuse me, can you just please stop making clickbait extensions and try them out for yourself. Please don't be such a big internet scammer. Wasted my time!
by Zen Ng, 2023-06-11

An excellent free Chess.com addition! Pros: 1. Works exactly as advertised 2. Free 3. No adds 4. Very easy to set up 5. Works with Chess.com! Cons: 1. Speech recognition requires a few attempts sometimes, a good microphone or talking loudly is required. 2. 11=a1 is a great option, would like for a1,b1,c1 etc speech recognition to work not just 11,21,31...
by Trenton Matthews, 2023-05-02
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Chess.com Voice Input requires very minimum permissions.

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