How to set the language in speech recognition on android?

Question

I've been working on speech Recognition API in android and found out that the speech results vary allot when the language settings are changed , is there a way to set it programmatically ? or is there an intent to lunch the speech language settings screen ? or what else ? note: I tried to use this intent extra:

intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE_PREFERENCE, "en-US");

but it was ineffective

Answer 1

As pargat says, this will do it:

intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE, "en-US"); 

Also, your app can query for the list of supported languages by sending a RecognizerIntent.ACTION_GET_LANGUAGE_DETAILS ordered broadcast like so:

    Intent detailsIntent =  new Intent(RecognizerIntent.ACTION_GET_LANGUAGE_DETAILS);     sendOrderedBroadcast(             detailsIntent, null, new LanguageDetailsChecker(), null, Activity.RESULT_OK, null, null); 

where LanguageDetailsChecker is something like this:

public class LanguageDetailsChecker extends BroadcastReceiver {     private List<String> supportedLanguages;      private String languagePreference;      @Override     public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)     {         Bundle results = getResultExtras(true);         if (results.containsKey(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE_PREFERENCE))         {             languagePreference =                     results.getString(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE_PREFERENCE);         }         if (results.containsKey(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES))         {             supportedLanguages =                     results.getStringArrayList(                             RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES);         }     } } 

For the complete code check out this github project: https://github.com/gast-lib

Answer 2

This will work:

intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE, "en_US"); 

You have to use "en_US" instead of "en-US". The former is the right format of Java locale tag.

It is suggested that you use

intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE, Locale.US.toString()); 

to avoid remembering such detail.

Answer 3

there is no solution but a hackaround...

intent.putExtra("android.speech.extra.EXTRA_ADDITIONAL_LANGUAGES", new String[]{"en"});

check here the complete story.