start (SpeechRecognition)

Bubbles	No
Cancelable	No
Target objects	SpeechRecognition
Interface	Event

Examples

var recognition = new SpeechRecognition();

recognition.onstart = function() {
  console.log('Speech recognition service has started');
}

Inheritance

The start event implements the Event interface — it has available the properties and methods defined on this interface.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
Web Speech API The definition of 'speech recognition events' in that specification.	Draft

Browser compatibility

• [1] Speech recognition interfaces are currently prefixed on Chrome, so you'll need to prefix interface names appropriately, e.g. webkitSpeechRecognition; You'll also need to serve your code through a web server for recognition to work.
• [2] Can be enabled via the media.webspeech.recognition.enable flag in about:config, although note that currently speech recognition won't work on Desktop Firefox — it will be properly exposed soon, once the required internal permissions are sorted out.

Firefox OS permissions

To use speech recognition in an app, you need to specify the following permissions in your manifest:

"permissions": {
  "audio-capture" : {
    "description" : "Audio capture"
  },
  "speech-recognition" : {
    "description" : "Speech recognition"
  }
}

You also need a privileged app, so you need to include this as well:

  "type": "privileged"

See also

• Web Speech API