This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
The message read-only property of the SpeechRecognitionErrorEvent interface returns a message describing the error in more detail.
A string containing more details about the error that was raised. Note that the spec does not define the exact wording of these messages — this is up to the implementors to decide upon.
const recognition = new SpeechRecognition();
recognition.onerror = (event) => {
console.log(`Speech recognition error detected: ${event.error}`);
console.log(`Additional information: ${event.message}`);
};
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
message |
77 | 79 | No | 64 | 14.1 | 77 | No | 55 | 14.5 | 12.0 | 77 | 14.5 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecognitionErrorEvent/message