SpeechRecognitionAlternative: transcript property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

The transcript read-only property of the SpeechRecognitionResult interface returns a string containing the transcript of the recognized word(s).

For continuous recognition, leading or trailing whitespace will be included where necessary so that concatenation of consecutive SpeechRecognitionResults produces a proper transcript of the session.

Value

A string.

Examples

This code is excerpted from our Speech color changer example.

js
recognition.onresult = (event) => {
  const color = event.results[0][0].transcript;
  diagnostic.textContent = `Result received: ${color}.`;
  bg.style.backgroundColor = color;
};

Specifications

Specification
Web Speech API
# dom-speechrecognitionalternative-transcript

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
transcript
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 33 (Release date: 2014-02-20)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – Full support
Safari 14.1 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 33 (Release date: 2014-02-26)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – No support
Opera Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 14.5 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 2 (Release date: 2014-10-17)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 4.4.3 (Release date: 2014-06-02)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 14.5 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
footnote Full support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support

See also