Android Speech to Text Converter – Android Studio Step by Step Coding

Android Speech to Text Converter – Android Studio Step by Step Coding

Android comes with an inbuilt feature android speech to text through which you can provide speech input to your app. In this tutorial we will learn how to make speech to text converter. So as the name implies, user voice will be converted into text and shown on Android Screen. As soon as a user say something, Android will recognize his/her voice and convert it into text. It will do it through RecognizerIntent.

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1. As we will recored audio to convert it into text so we will need RECORD_AUDIO permission into our AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.androstock.speechtotext">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO"/>

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

2. Our activity_main.xml looks like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#3F51B5">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="20dp"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="100dp"
        android:textSize="26sp"
        android:textStyle="normal"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"/>

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progressBar1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"/>

    <ImageButton
        android:id="@+id/mainButton"
        android:layout_width="90dp"
        android:layout_height="90dp"
        android:scaleType="fitXY"
        android:background="@android:color/transparent"
        android:src="@drawable/mike"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"/>

</RelativeLayout>

3. This is the main part of voice recognition app where we will use RecognizerIntent to convert speech into text. Add following code in MainActivity.java:

package com.androstock.speechtotext;

import android.Manifest;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.speech.RecognitionListener;
import android.speech.RecognizerIntent;
import android.speech.SpeechRecognizer;
import android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompat;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ImageButton;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.widget.TextView;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 * Created by SHAJIB on 8/2/2017.
 */

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements RecognitionListener {

    private TextView returnedText;
    ImageButton recordbtn;
    private ProgressBar progressBar;
    private SpeechRecognizer speech = null;
    private Intent recognizerIntent;
    static final int REQUEST_PERMISSION_KEY = 1;


    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        getSupportActionBar().hide();
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        returnedText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar1);
        recordbtn = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.mainButton);

        String[] PERMISSIONS = {Manifest.permission.RECORD_AUDIO};
        if(!Function.hasPermissions(this, PERMISSIONS)){
            ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, PERMISSIONS, REQUEST_PERMISSION_KEY);
        }


        progressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        speech = SpeechRecognizer.createSpeechRecognizer(this);
        speech.setRecognitionListener(this);
        recognizerIntent = new Intent(RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH);
        recognizerIntent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE_PREFERENCE,
                "en");
        recognizerIntent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_CALLING_PACKAGE,
                this.getPackageName());
        recognizerIntent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE_MODEL,
                RecognizerIntent.LANGUAGE_MODEL_WEB_SEARCH);
        recognizerIntent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_PARTIAL_RESULTS, true);

        /*
        Minimum time to listen in millis. Here 5 seconds
         */
        recognizerIntent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_SPEECH_INPUT_MINIMUM_LENGTH_MILLIS, 5000);
        recognizerIntent.putExtra("android.speech.extra.DICTATION_MODE", true);




        recordbtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){

            @Override
            public void onClick(View p1)
            {
                progressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                speech.startListening(recognizerIntent);
                recordbtn.setEnabled(false);

                /*To stop listening
                    progressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
                    speech.stopListening();
                    recordbtn.setEnabled(true);
                 */
            }


        });



    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        if (speech != null) {
            speech.destroy();
            Log.d("Log", "destroy");
        }

    }

    @Override
    public void onBeginningOfSpeech() {
        Log.d("Log", "onBeginningOfSpeech");
        progressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBufferReceived(byte[] buffer) {
        Log.d("Log", "onBufferReceived: " + buffer);
    }

    @Override
    public void onEndOfSpeech() {
        Log.d("Log", "onEndOfSpeech");
        progressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        recordbtn.setEnabled(true);
    }

    @Override
    public void onError(int errorCode) {
        String errorMessage = getErrorText(errorCode);
        Log.d("Log", "FAILED " + errorMessage);
        progressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        returnedText.setText(errorMessage);
        recordbtn.setEnabled(true);
    }

    @Override
    public void onEvent(int arg0, Bundle arg1) {
        Log.d("Log", "onEvent");
    }

    @Override
    public void onPartialResults(Bundle arg0) {
        Log.d("Log", "onPartialResults");

        ArrayList<String> matches = arg0.getStringArrayList(SpeechRecognizer.RESULTS_RECOGNITION);
        String text = "";
        /* To get all close matchs
        for (String result : matches)
        {
            text += result + "\n";
        }
        */
        text = matches.get(0); //  Remove this line while uncommenting above codes
        returnedText.setText(text);
    }

    @Override
    public void onReadyForSpeech(Bundle arg0) {
        Log.d("Log", "onReadyForSpeech");
    }

    @Override
    public void onResults(Bundle results) {
        Log.d("Log", "onResults");

    }

    @Override
    public void onRmsChanged(float rmsdB) {
        Log.d("Log", "onRmsChanged: " + rmsdB);
        progressBar.setProgress((int) rmsdB);

    }

    public static String getErrorText(int errorCode) {
        String message;
        switch (errorCode) {
            case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_AUDIO:
                message = "Audio recording error";
                break;
            case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_CLIENT:
                message = "Client side error";
                break;
            case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_PERMISSIONS:
                message = "Insufficient permissions";
                break;
            case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_NETWORK:
                message = "Network error";
                break;
            case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_NETWORK_TIMEOUT:
                message = "Network timeout";
                break;
            case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_NO_MATCH:
                message = "No match";
                break;
            case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_RECOGNIZER_BUSY:
                message = "RecognitionService busy";
                break;
            case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_SERVER:
                message = "error from server";
                break;
            case SpeechRecognizer.ERROR_SPEECH_TIMEOUT:
                message = "No speech input";
                break;
            default:
                message = "Didn't understand, please try again.";
                break;
        }
        return message;
    }

}

You can change the minimum time to listen by changing the below line

recognizerIntent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_SPEECH_INPUT_MINIMUM_LENGTH_MILLIS, 5000);

4. Finally our Function.java file.

package com.androstock.speechtotext;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.os.Build;
import android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompat;

/**
 * Created by SHAJIB on 8/2/2017.
 */

public class Function {

    public static  boolean hasPermissions(Context context, String... permissions) {
        if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M && context != null && permissions != null) {
            for (String permission : permissions) {
                if (ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(context, permission) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
}

September 17, 2018