SpeechRecognitionErrorEvent.error

Experimental

This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The error read-only property of the SpeechRecognitionErrorEvent interface returns the type of error raised.

Syntax

var myError = event.error;

Value

A DOMString naming the type of error. The possible error types are:

no-speech
No speech was detected.
aborted
Speech input was aborted in some manner, perhaps by some user-agent-specific behavior like a button the user can press to cancel speech input.
audio-capture
Audio capture failed.
network
Network communication required for completing the recognition failed.
not-allowed
The user agent disallowed any speech input from occurring for reasons of security, privacy or user preference.
service-not-allowed
The user agent disallowed the requested speech recognition service, either because the user agent doesn't support it or because of reasons of security, privacy or user preference. In this case it would allow another more suitable speech recognition service to be used instead.
bad-grammar
There was an error in the speech recognition grammar or semantic tags, or the chosen grammar format or semantic tag format was unsupported.
language-not-supported
The language was not supported.

Examples

var recognition = new SpeechRecognition();

recognition.onerror = function(event) {
  console.log('Speech recognition error detected: ' + event.error);
  console.log('Additional information: ' + event.message);
}

Specifications

Specification
Web Speech API
# dom-speechrecognitionerrorevent-error

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

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