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11 changes: 9 additions & 2 deletions electron/resources/speech-helper.swift
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Expand Up @@ -24,8 +24,15 @@ func fail(_ message: String) -> Never {

SFSpeechRecognizer.requestAuthorization { status in
guard status == .authorized else { fail("speech-not-authorized") }
guard let recognizer = SFSpeechRecognizer(locale: Locale(identifier: "en-US")),
recognizer.isAvailable
// Recognize in the user's language: a hardcoded en-US recognizer
// transcribes everyone else into nonsense. First preference that has an
// available recognizer wins, with en-US as the last resort.
let candidates =
Locale.preferredLanguages.map { Locale(identifier: $0) }
+ [Locale.current, Locale(identifier: "en-US")]
guard
let recognizer = candidates.lazy.compactMap({ SFSpeechRecognizer(locale: $0) })
.first(where: { $0.isAvailable })
else { fail("recognizer-unavailable") }

let request = SFSpeechAudioBufferRecognitionRequest()
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