Accessing continuous voice recognition in Android 4.0

Question

I am trying to get continuous voice input to work in my Android application. I tried using the built-in SpeechRecognizer Intent but it waits for the user to finish speaking before processing the words. This is not sufficient for me. I need the device to process the words while the user is still speaking.

I read that this is supported in Ice Cream Sandwich now. However, I did not find any API that allows me to access this feature. Does anyone know how this works now?

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

I guess you heard about the new voice typing feature of Android 4.0. Take a look at this article.

You have to use an external library for it. Though the article says the library is designed for IME developers, and as I see the result of voice recognition will appear in a registered IME through InputMethodService. You can also check the source of the library, because it is a project on Google Code