How to change SpeechRecognition lang

[dgastudio]

Hey I have chrome in English, but I would like to define Spanish as well.

it's possible to change the language in cross-browser mode, but not in "native"

any advice? thanks

[Riley-Brown]

You could pass the googleCloudRecognitionConfig arg to the hook to specify the language code for cross-browser mode

 googleCloudRecognitionConfig: {
    languageCode: 'en-US'
  }

This language code will only apply for the browsers that don't support the native browser speech API

Read more here https://github.com/Riley-Brown/react-speech-to-text#googlecloudrecognitionconfig

[dgastudio]

Hello Riley!

Thank you for your response! But, i don't want to use google cloud. Instead, i want to set language in native mode as i can see, it's possible, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecognition/lang

how to apply this functionality in your plugin?

[Riley-Brown]

@dgastudio Yes it is also possible to specify the language for native chrome recognition with the speechRecognitionProperties

  speechRecognitionProperties: {
    lang: 'es',
  }

However, I would not recommend hardcoding a value here as the MDN docs state

If not specified, this defaults to the HTML lang attribute value, or the user agent's language setting

So this setting should be automatically set based on the user's browser language settings

[dgastudio]

awesome, thank you!