The Heyra project provides three loosely coupled components, an implementation of Android's speech recognition interface, an intent handler activity for speech recognition actions from other applications and an input method service (i.e. virtual keyboard).

Heyra provides an implementaion of android.speech.RecognitionService that interfaces with an online gRPC speech recognition service. It can be any service that implements tiro.speech.v1alpha.Speech, but by default it connects to speech.tiro.is.

To use the Heyra service in other applications one can either use it directly by calling SpeechRecognizer#createSpeechRecognizer:

recognizer = SpeechRecognizer.createSpeechRecognizer(
    context,
    ComponentName.unflattenFromString("is.tiro.heyra/RecognitionService")
)

or alternatively launch an activity with the RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH intent which will pop up a modal that performs the recognition returns the recognized results in an extra bundle.

The development is in early stages, so expect bugs.

This project was funded by the Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019-2023. The programme, which is managed and coordinated by Almannarómur, is funded by the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

All new code is Copyright © 2022 Tiro ehf and licensed under the Apache 2.0 LICENSE license.