Capacitor Speech Recognition Plugin

Capacitor community plugin for speech recognition.

Maintainers

Maintainer	GitHub	Social	Sponsoring Company
Priyank Patel	priyankpat	@priyankpat_	Ionic

Maintenance Status: Actively Maintained

Installation

To use npm

npm install @capacitor-community/speech-recognition

To use yarn

yarn add @capacitor-community/speech-recognition

Sync native files

npx cap sync

iOS Platform: No further action required.

Android Platform: Register the plugin in your main activity:

import com.getcapacitor.community.speechrecognition.SpeechRecognition;

public class MainActivity extends BridgeActivity {

  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // Initializes the Bridge
    this.init(
        savedInstanceState,
        new ArrayList<Class<? extends Plugin>>() {

          {
            // Additional plugins you've installed go here
            // Ex: add(TotallyAwesomePlugin.class);
            add(SpeechRecognition.class);
          }
        }
      );
  }
}

Configuration

No configuration required for this plugin

Supported methods

Name	Android	iOS	Web
available	✅	✅	❌
start	✅	✅	❌
stop	✅	✅	❌
getSupportedLanguages	✅	✅	❌
hasPermission	✅	✅	❌
requestPermission	✅	✅	❌

Usage

import { Plugins } from "@capacitor/core";

const { SpeechRecognition } = Plugins;

/**
 * This method will check if speech recognition feature is available on the device.
 * @param none
 * @returns available - boolean true/false for availability
 */
SpeechRecognition.available();

/**
 * This method will start to listen for utterance.
 * @param language - language key returned from getSupportedLanguages()
 *        maxResults - maximum number of results to return (5 is max)
 *        prompt - prompt message to display on popup (Android only)
 *        partialResults - return partial results if found
 *        popup - display popup window when listening for utterance (Android only)
 * @returns void
 */
SpeechRecognition.start({
  language: "en-US",
  maxResults: 2,
  prompt: "Say something",
  partialResults: true,
  popup: true,
});

/**
 * This method will stop listening for utterance
 * @param none
 * @returns void
 */
SpeechRecognition.stop();

/**
 * This method will return list of languages supported by the speech recognizer.
 * @param none
 * @returns languages - array string of languages
 */
SpeechRecognition.getSupportedLanguages();

/**
 * This method will check for audio permissions.
 * @param none
 * @returns permission - boolean true/false if permissions are granted
 */
SpeechRecognition.hasPermission();

/**
 * This method will prompt the user for audio permission.
 * @param none
 * @returns void
 */
SpeechRecognition.requestPermission();