A Flutter plugin to use speech recognition on iOS & Android

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A Flutter plugin to use speech recognition on iOS & Android

speech_recognition

A flutter plugin to use the speech recognition iOS10+ / Android 4.1+

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Installation

  1. Depend on it Add this to your package’s pubspec.yaml file:
dependencies:
  speech_recognition: "^0.3.0"
  1. Install it You can install packages from the command line:
$ flutter packages get
  1. Import it Now in your Dart code, you can use:
import 'package:speech_recognition/speech_recognition.dart';

Usage

//..
_speech = SpeechRecognition();

// The flutter app not only call methods on the host platform,
// it also needs to receive method calls from host.
_speech.setAvailabilityHandler((bool result) 
  => setState(() => _speechRecognitionAvailable = result));

// handle device current locale detection
_speech.setCurrentLocaleHandler((String locale) =>
 setState(() => _currentLocale = locale));

_speech.setRecognitionStartedHandler(() 
  => setState(() => _isListening = true));

// this handler will be called during recognition. 
// the iOS API sends intermediate results,
// On my Android device, only the final transcription is received
_speech.setRecognitionResultHandler((String text) 
  => setState(() => transcription = text));

_speech.setRecognitionCompleteHandler(() 
  => setState(() => _isListening = false));

// 1st launch : speech recognition permission / initialization
_speech
    .activate()
    .then((res) => setState(() => _speechRecognitionAvailable = res));
//..

speech.listen(locale:_currentLocale).then((result)=> print('result : $result'));

// ...

speech.cancel();

// ||

speech.stop();

Permissions

iOS

iOS : Swift 4.2 project

infos.plist, add :

  • Privacy – Microphone Usage Description
  • Privacy – Speech Recognition Usage Description
<key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key>
<string>This application needs to access your microphone</string>
<key>NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription</key>
<string>This application needs the speech recognition permission</string>

Android

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" />

Recognition

Limitation

On iOS, by default the plugin is configured for French, English, Russian, Spanish, Italian. On Android, without additional installations, it will probably works only with the default device locale.

Credit (github url) : https://github.com/rxlabz/speech_recognition

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