Capacitor Speech Recognition Plugin

Capacitor community plugin for speech recognition.

Maintainers

Maintainer	GitHub	Social
Priyank Patel	priyankpat	@priyankpat_
Matteo Padovano	mrbatista	@mrba7ista

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

iOS requires the following usage descriptions be added and filled out for your app in Info.plist:

• NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription (Privacy - Speech Recognition Usage Description)
• NSMicrophoneUsageDescription (Privacy - Microphone Usage Description)

Android

No further action required.

Supported methods

• available()
• start(...)
• stop()
• getSupportedLanguages()
• isListening()
• checkPermissions()
• requestPermissions()
• addListener('partialResults', ...)
• addListener('listeningState', ...)
• removeAllListeners()
• Interfaces
• Type Aliases

Example

import { SpeechRecognition } from "@capacitor-community/speech-recognition";

SpeechRecognition.available();

SpeechRecognition.start({
  language: "en-US",
  maxResults: 2,
  prompt: "Say something",
  partialResults: true,
  popup: true,
});
// listen to partial results
SpeechRecognition.addListener("partialResults", (data: any) => {
  console.log("partialResults was fired", data.matches);
});

// stop listening partial results
SpeechRecognition.removeAllListeners();

SpeechRecognition.stop();

SpeechRecognition.getSupportedLanguages();

SpeechRecognition.checkPermissions();

SpeechRecognition.requestPermissions();

SpeechRecognition.hasPermission();

SpeechRecognition.requestPermission();

available()

available() => Promise<{ available: boolean; }>

This method will check if speech recognition feature is available on the device.

Returns: Promise<{ available: boolean; }>

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start(...)

start(options?: UtteranceOptions | undefined) => Promise<{ matches?: string[]; }>

This method will start to listen for utterance.

if partialResults is true, the function respond directly without result and event partialResults will be emit for each partial result, until stopped.

Param	Type
options	UtteranceOptions

Returns: Promise<{ matches?: string[]; }>

---

stop()

stop() => Promise<void>

This method will stop listening for utterance

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getSupportedLanguages()

getSupportedLanguages() => Promise<{ languages: any[]; }>

This method will return list of languages supported by the speech recognizer.

It's not available on Android 13 and newer.

Returns: Promise<{ languages: any[]; }>

---

isListening()

isListening() => Promise<{ listening: boolean; }>

This method will check if speech recognition is listening.

Returns: Promise<{ listening: boolean; }>

Since: 5.1.0

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checkPermissions()

checkPermissions() => Promise<PermissionStatus>

Check the speech recognition permission.

Returns: Promise<PermissionStatus>

Since: 5.0.0

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requestPermissions()

requestPermissions() => Promise<PermissionStatus>

Request the speech recognition permission.

Returns: Promise<PermissionStatus>

Since: 5.0.0

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addListener('partialResults', ...)

addListener(eventName: 'partialResults', listenerFunc: (data: { matches: string[]; }) => void) => Promise<PluginListenerHandle>

Called when partialResults set to true and result received.

On Android it doesn't work if popup is true.

Provides partial result.

Param	Type
eventName	'partialResults'
listenerFunc	(data: { matches: string[]; }) => void

Returns: Promise<PluginListenerHandle>

Since: 2.0.2

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addListener('listeningState', ...)

addListener(eventName: 'listeningState', listenerFunc: (data: { status: 'started' | 'stopped'; }) => void) => Promise<PluginListenerHandle>

Called when listening state changed.

Param	Type
eventName	'listeningState'
listenerFunc	(data: { status: 'started' | 'stopped'; }) => void

Returns: Promise<PluginListenerHandle>

Since: 5.1.0

---

removeAllListeners()

removeAllListeners() => Promise<void>

Remove all the listeners that are attached to this plugin.

Since: 4.0.0

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Interfaces

UtteranceOptions

Prop	Type	Description
language	string	key returned from getSupportedLanguages()
maxResults	number	maximum number of results to return (5 is max)
prompt	string	prompt message to display on popup (Android only)
popup	boolean	display popup window when listening for utterance (Android only)
partialResults	boolean	return partial results if found

PermissionStatus

Prop	Type	Description	Since
speechRecognition	PermissionState	Permission state for speechRecognition alias. On Android it requests/checks RECORD_AUDIO permission On iOS it requests/checks the speech recognition and microphone permissions.	5.0.0

PluginListenerHandle

Prop	Type
remove	() => Promise<void>

Type Aliases

PermissionState

'prompt' | 'prompt-with-rationale' | 'granted' | 'denied'