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I am trying to implement speech recognizer in iOS application using Cordova. I am using iOS 13.1. It is working when application is front. But not working when application moved to background.

I got the following error:

2020-01-21 15:30:41.549170+0530 Pro@Me[2212:613705] [Utility] +[AFAggregator logDictationFailedWithError:] Error Domain=kAFAssistantErrorDomain Code=1700 "(null)" 2020-01-21 15:30:41.553271+0530 Pro@Me[2212:613445] [aurioc] AURemoteIO.cpp:1590:Start: AUIOClient_StartIO failed (561145187) 2020-01-21 15:30:41.553429+0530 Pro@Me[2212:613445] [avae] AVAEInternal.h:109 [AVAudioEngineGraph.mm:1544:Start: (err = PerformCommand(*ioNode, kAUStartIO, NULL, 0)): error 561145187 2020-01-21 15:30:41.556057+0530 Pro@Me[2212:613445] THREAD WARNING: ['SpeechRecognition'] took '42.260986' ms. Plugin should use a background thread. 2020-01-21 15:30:41.556959+0530 Pro@Me[2212:613445] startListening() recognitionTask error: Error Domain=kAFAssistantErrorDomain Code=1700 "(null)"

Suggest some solutions.

Ram Prasath
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    Why would you expect your app to be able to recognise speech when it isn't the active foreground app? – Paulw11 Jan 24 '20 at 11:33
  • @Paulw11 I can see several use cases where one would want to do that. For example, a chat application that allow you to send text messages while in the background. – Richard Jan 31 '20 at 03:49
  • How would it be a good user experience for some chat program to be listening to you and transcribing your speech into a chat window when that app wasn't the foreground app on the screen? If I want to send text messages I would want to open the text message app to do so. – Paulw11 Jan 31 '20 at 05:24
  • Yes. I want to convert speech to text in background – Ram Prasath Jan 31 '20 at 12:15

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Apple does not support speech recognition in the background. You will have to use an alternative solution in order to perform your task.

Quoted from Source:

Apple has closed my issue with the following:

We explicitly don't support speech recognition in the background currently.

We consider this issue closed. If you have any questions or concern regarding this issue, please update your report directly (http://bugreport.apple.com).

Thank you for taking the time to notify us of this issue.

Best Regards,

Apple Developer Support

Worldwide Developer Relations

Richard
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