Handling RecognitionListener Errors

Question

I am using the Android\'s speech API to continuously getting input from the user. However this doesn\'t work quite well when errors occur.

What I do is restarting th

Answer 1

I m posting this late , but this might help some one. I was also facing same error , & also it was not listening after some random time , i tried the following & it helped me somewhat, Try doing this ,

case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_RECOGNIZER_BUSY: 
        recognizer.destroy();
        startSR(); // As it destroys the current objects & calling startSR() will instantiate
                   // objects again 

Answer 2

Intent RC = new Intent(RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH);

        if (!RC.hasExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_CALLING_PACKAGE))
        { 
            RC.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_CALLING_PACKAGE, "com.dummy");
        } 

        sr.startListening(RC);

Answer 3

• If you get recognizer busy error you have to call cancel and then call startListening
• If you get server or network errors you have to check for network connection before calling startListening

Answer 4

Try to properly clean up after the error, e.g. call cancel or destroy on the SpeechRecognizer.