Cool new Chrome experiment lets you make your own silent movie

If you’re a tech geek who also happens to have a thing for silent movies, then you’ll love the latest Chrome experiment from Google.

The Peanut Gallery lets you add intertitles to old black-and-white movie clips by talking out loud while you watch them. You can also record the whole process, effectively allowing you to make your own silent movie.

The experiment is intended to be a way of showing off Chrome’s Web Speech API, which launched last month.

Google has something of a habit of using unique and fun experiments to show off the latest developments in Chrome. Most recently, it partnered up with Disney and production company Unit 9 to make a task-based game ahead of the release of Oz: The Great and Powerful. Completing the tasks successfully earned you a glimpse at unseen footage from the movie.

Other experiments include one which allowed you to build your own Lego universe and another which allowed you to jam out on browser-based instruments with your friends.

A collaboration between Google and renowned British art museum the Tate Modern meanwhile produced an HTML 5 and Javascript-based online art experiment that lets you collaborate with others to create animations and stories using a web-based drawing tool.