Webkitspeechrecognition Returning Network Error In Electron

Recently (in the past 1.5 weeks) the javascript library WebkitSpeechRecognition has refused to work properly. I've tested other electron applications that utilize the library (smar

Solution 1:

It seems that Google has removed this feature for electron. See this discussion.

Solution 2:

Configure your own Google Speech API credentials using https://console.developers.google.com and then set them on your system's environment variables. I had the same issue and got it working with this way. Make sure to restart your system after configuring the environment variables. Sometimes they don't get into affect immediately.

Please refer for more detailed steps: https://docs.smart-mirror.io/docs/howto/how_to_obtain_chromium_speech_keys.html

GOOGLE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET set their value to Key, ClientID and ClientSecret respectively.

Solution 3:

On some Windows PC's Speech Recognition will work in Edge but not Chrome. On another PC, seemingly with same software versions, it will not work at all and give NETWORK error. It's nice when it works, but I don't see how they expect to get any developers for it. I am developing a free word learning app, not commercial.