function startDictation() {

    if (window.hasOwnProperty('webkitSpeechRecognition')) {
      document.getElementById('micinform').style.display="inline";
      setTimeout(function(){document.getElementById('micinform').style.display="none";}, 600);
      var recognition = new webkitSpeechRecognition();

      recognition.continuous = false;
      recognition.interimResults = false;

      recognition.lang = "en-US";
      recognition.start();

      recognition.onresult = function(e) {
        document.getElementById('transcript').value
                                 = e.results[0][0].transcript;
        recognition.stop();
        document.getElementById('micinform').style.display="none";
        document.getElementById('beginvsearch').style.display="inline";
        document.getElementById('searchbox').submit();
      };

      recognition.onerror = function(e) {
        document.getElementById('micinform').style.display="inline";
        recognition.stop();
      }

    }
  }