Google's ML Kit GenAI Speech Recognition for Flutter #

A Flutter plugin to use Google's ML Kit GenAI Speech Recognition API to transcribe speech to text in real time.

PLEASE READ THIS before continuing or posting a new issue:

• Google's ML Kit was build only for mobile platforms: iOS and Android apps. Web or any other platform is not supported, you can request support for those platform to Google in their repo.

• This plugin is not sponsored or maintained by Google. The authors are developers excited about Machine Learning that wanted to expose Google's native APIs to Flutter.

• Google's ML Kit APIs are only developed natively for iOS and Android. This plugin uses Flutter Platform Channels as explained here.

Requirements #

Android #

• minSdkVersion: 26
• targetSdkVersion: 35
• compileSdkVersion: 35

Note: This API is currently only available on Android. iOS support may be added in the future.

Usage #

Speech Recognition #

Create an instance of SpeechRecognizer

final speechRecognizer = SpeechRecognizer();

Check feature status

final status = await speechRecognizer.checkStatus();
if (status == FeatureStatus.available) {
  // Start recognition
}

Start recognition

final stream = speechRecognizer.startRecognition();
stream.listen((text) {
  print('Recognized: $text');
});

Stop recognition

await speechRecognizer.stopRecognition();

Release resources with close()

speechRecognizer.close();

Example app #

Find the example app here.

Contributing #

Contributions are welcome. In case of any problems look at existing issues, if you cannot find anything related to your problem then open an issue. Create an issue before opening a pull request for non trivial fixes. In case of trivial fixes open a pull request directly.