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SpeechRecognitionAlternative

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

The SpeechRecognitionAlternative interface of the Web Speech API represents a single word that has been recognized by the speech recognition service.

Properties

SpeechRecognitionAlternative.transcript Read only

Returns a string containing the transcript of the recognized word.

SpeechRecognitionAlternative.confidence Read only

Returns a numeric estimate of how confident the speech recognition system is that the recognition is correct.

Examples

This code is excerpted from our Speech color changer example.

recognition.onresult = function(event) {
  // The SpeechRecognitionEvent results property returns a SpeechRecognitionResultList object
  // The SpeechRecognitionResultList object contains SpeechRecognitionResult objects.
  // It has a getter so it can be accessed like an array
  // The first [0] returns the SpeechRecognitionResult at position 0.
  // Each SpeechRecognitionResult object contains SpeechRecognitionAlternative objects
  // that contain individual results.
  // These also have getters so they can be accessed like arrays.
  // The second [0] returns the SpeechRecognitionAlternative at position 0.
  // We then return the transcript property of the SpeechRecognitionAlternative object
  var color = event.results[0][0].transcript;
  diagnostic.textContent = 'Result received: ' + color + '.';
  bg.style.backgroundColor = color;
}

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
SpeechRecognitionAlternative
33
79
No
No
No
14.1
4.4.3
33
No
No
14.5
2.0
confidence
33
79
No
No
No
14.1
4.4.3
33
No
No
14.5
2.0
transcript
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/SpeechRecognitionAlternative