The browser market is definitely booming right now. First Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9, raking in about 2.35 million downloads in its first 24 hours, and yesterday Mozilla released Firefox 4, registering a massive 4.7 million downloads in its first day.

Now it's Google's turn to jump back into the fray, with the company yesterday unveiling the Beta release of its Chrome 11 web browser.

The Chrome 11.0.696.16 Beta is now available for download on Windows, Mac and Linux running PCs. Some of the improvements that the new version brings to the forefront includes HTML5 speech input, GPU-accelerated 3D CCS and, somewhat less game changing, a shiny new Chrome icon.

Certainly the most interesting development is the HTML5 speech input API, which allows web apps to transcribe your voice into text, which is then typed out for you, meaning we may be seeing a rise in voice controlled websites.

To utilise this functionality users simply click an icon on the website after which they speak into the computer's microphone. The audio is then sent to speech servers after which it's typed out for you.

Users can find the Chrome 11 Beta here. If you're a Chrome fan let us know what you think of the browser, and how it compares to the other newcomers. We're still split between Firefox and Chrome here at the office.