Speech to Text Error

[dflyers]

Running the sample app on Windows Desktop machine and it fails with the following error. Online Speech Recognition is enabled.

Error:
{SpeechToTextResult { IsSuccessful = False, Text = , Exception = System.Exception: NetworkFailure
at CommunityToolkit.Maui.Media.SpeechToTextImplementation.ListenOnline(CultureInfo culture, IProgress1 recognitionResult, CancellationToken cancellationToken) in C:\MyProjects\Samples\Maui-Sample\Maui-main\src\CommunityToolkit.Maui.Core\Essentials\SpeechToText\SpeechToTextImplementation.windows.cs:line 92 at CommunityToolkit.Maui.Media.SpeechToTextImplementation.ListenOnline(CultureInfo culture, IProgress1 recognitionResult, CancellationToken cancellationToken) in C:\MyProjects\Samples\Maui-Sample\Maui-main\src\CommunityToolkit.Maui.Core\Essentials\SpeechToText\SpeechToTextImplementation.windows.cs:line 92
at CommunityToolkit.Maui.Media.SpeechToTextImplementation.InternalListenAsync(CultureInfo culture, IProgress1 recognitionResult, CancellationToken cancellationToken) in C:\MyProjects\Samples\Maui-Sample\Maui-main\src\CommunityToolkit.Maui.Core\Essentials\SpeechToText\SpeechToTextImplementation.windows.cs:line 40 at CommunityToolkit.Maui.Media.SpeechToTextImplementation.ListenAsync(CultureInfo culture, IProgress1 recognitionResult, CancellationToken cancellationToken) in C:\MyProjects\Samples\Maui-Sample\Maui-main\src\CommunityToolkit.Maui.Core\Essentials\SpeechToText\SpeechToTextImplementation.shared.cs:line 21 }}

[TheCodeTraveler]

Have you enabled Online Speech Recognition on the Windows device?

On windows, SpeechToText will first attempt to use cloud-based speech recognition and will fail back to device-based speech recognition if an internet connection is not available.

Maui/src/CommunityToolkit.Maui.Core/Essentials/SpeechToText/SpeechToTextImplementation.windows.cs

Lines 34 to 44 in bb31c87

	async Task<string> InternalListenAsync(CultureInfo culture,
	IProgress<string>? recognitionResult,
	CancellationToken cancellationToken)
	{
	if (Connectivity.NetworkAccess is NetworkAccess.Internet)
	{
	return await ListenOnline(culture, recognitionResult, cancellationToken);
	}
	return await ListenOffline(culture, recognitionResult, cancellationToken);
	}

[TheCodeTraveler]

Just a thought, @VladislavAntonyuk - Does Windows allow us to check if Online speech recognition is enabled programmatically, similar to how we can check Permissions on iOS + Android? If so, it may be best for us to check this permission at the OS level before running LisennOnline().

if (Connectivity.NetworkAccess is NetworkAccess.Internet && IsSpeechPermissionEnabled()) 
{
   // ...
}

[VladislavAntonyuk]

According to the exception the issue is related to the network. NetworkAccess.Internet means your device is connected to the Internet, but it doesn't guarantee you are connected (meaning send request or load websites).

[dflyers]

Not following you, its connected and i can visit websites etc. Is that a valid test ?

[VladislavAntonyuk]

If it can't connect to online speech recognition service you get the error. So check your network connection.

[CliffAgius]

Closed and answered