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SpeechRecognition.onstart

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The onstart property of the SpeechRecognition interface represents an event handler that will run when the speech recognition service has begun listening to incoming audio with intent to recognize grammars associated with the current SpeechRecognition (when the start event fires.)

Syntax

mySpeechRecognition.onstart = function() { ... };

Examples

recognition.onstart = function() {
  console.log('Speech recognition service has started');
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
onstart
33
79
No
No
No
14.1
4.4.3
33
No
No
14.5
2.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecognition/onstart