React Native Speech to Text

Question

I am making a language app that records any new vocabulary a user is trying to learn. It would be great if users can add their words via a speech to text program, instead of

Answer 1

You might wanna look at react-native-android-voice, a React Native module that supports speech-to-text for Android.

As @delkant mentioned, there's now also react-native-voice that supports both Android and iOS.

Alternatively, you can always write your custom native module using Android's SpeechRecognizer API. Here's a summary of all the classes and interfaces you might need for this task. If you are familiar with developing native Android apps, it's pretty easy to create a native module and bind it to your React Native project. Here's the official documentation of how to achieve this.