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audiostart

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

The audiostart event of the Web Speech API is fired when the user agent has started to capture audio for speech recognition.

Bubbles No
Cancelable No
Target objects SpeechRecognition
Interface Event

Examples

var recognition = new SpeechRecognition();

recognition.onaudiostart = function() {
  console.log('Audio capturing started');
}

Inheritance

The audiostart event implements the Event interface — it has available the properties and methods defined on this interface.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari (WebKit)
Basic support 33 [1] 44 (44) [2] No support No support No support
Feature Android Chrome Firefox Mobile (Gecko) Firefox OS IE Phone Opera Mobile Safari Mobile
Basic support ? (Yes)[1] ? 2.5 No support No support No support
  • [1] Speech recognition interfaces are currently prefixed on Chrome, so you'll need to prefix interface names appropriately, e.g. webkitSpeechRecognition; You'll also need to serve your code through a web server for recognition to work.
  • [2] Can be enabled via the media.webspeech.recognition.enable flag in about:config, although note that currently speech recognition won't work on Desktop Firefox — it will be properly exposed soon, once the required internal permissions are sorted out.

Firefox OS permissions

To use speech recognition in an app, you need to specify the following permissions in your manifest:

"permissions": {
  "audio-capture" : {
    "description" : "Audio capture"
  },
  "speech-recognition" : {
    "description" : "Speech recognition"
  }
}

You also need a privileged app, so you need to include this as well:

  "type": "privileged"

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/audiostart