Issues

• The timestamp of various events is under-specified, and not implemented per spec in shipped implementations

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#213 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 16, 2026

• Falling back to the document language isn't precise

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#211 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 8, 2026
  

• What happens if the language isn't specified when using SpeechRecognition, and how to recognized multiple languages

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#208 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 1, 2026
  

• SpeechRecognition.start() (microphone version) should require policy

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#207 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 1, 2026
  

• SpeechRecognition install/available: activation requirements

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#202 · Filter by author padenot opened on Aug 11, 2026

• Tighten the availablity algorithm prose

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#198 · Filter by author padenot opened on Jul 30, 2026

• Add SpeechRecognitionResult Timestamps

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#191 · Filter by author alan33d opened on Jul 13, 2026
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• Several questions about duplicates in .phrases?

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#184 · Filter by author bkardell opened on Jan 27, 2026
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• SpeechRecognitionResult and SpeechRecognitionResultList item() method needs to return a nullable

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#178 · Filter by author annevk opened on Jan 10, 2026

• Rename AvailabilityStatus to SpeechRecognitionAvailabilityStatus?

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#177 · Filter by author saschanaz opened on Dec 23, 2025

• What does non-continuous recognition means for an implementationt that is only local

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#176 · Filter by author padenot opened on Dec 16, 2025
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• Work needed on the "Start session algorithm"

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#175 · Filter by author padenot opened on Dec 5, 2025

• What happens if the languages are empty in install() or available()

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#174 · Filter by author padenot opened on Dec 4, 2025
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• install() function should support the monitor option to report on language pack download progress

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#173 · Filter by author tomayac opened on Oct 28, 2025

• Are modifications to phrases to be dynamically reflected in the backend, or are the phrases sent over to the underlying recognition engine on start()

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#172 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 18, 2025

• Should Speechrecognition.start() recommend user activation?

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#162 · Filter by author youennf opened on Jun 2, 2025
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• Apply privacy and security mitigations used by the Web Translation API to the Web Speech API

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#158 · Filter by author evanbliu opened on May 15, 2025
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• Can we customize the microphone timeout for web speech api

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#137 · Filter by author janaki112 opened on Jan 28, 2025
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• Web speech Api - Microphone is turning off as soon as speech end event is being triggered in chrome browser in android device

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#136 · Filter by author janaki112 opened on Jan 28, 2025

• Consider redesigning the Web Speech API with Promises & ReadableStreams

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#130 · Filter by author evanbliu opened on Jan 9, 2025
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• FR: getVoices options bag

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#116 · Filter by author hemanth opened on Oct 5, 2024

• Cannot have multiple speech-to-text listeners

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#115 · Filter by author ceyxasm opened on Oct 3, 2024

• Speech recognition parameter for spoken punctuation

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#114 · Filter by author evanbliu opened on Jun 24, 2024

• Interaction with screen readers and other assistive technology?

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#111 · Filter by author caraya opened on Apr 27, 2023
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• Arabic TTS Web Speech is Missing some letters

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#110 · Filter by author EdSaleh opened on Apr 24, 2023