react-speech-recognition

Why we included this project

react-speech-recognition gives React components a live transcript of whatever the user says into the microphone, via a small hook that wraps the browser's Web Speech API. You get listening state and start/stop/reset controls, so push-to-talk or continuous dictation is a few lines of code instead of a pile of browser plumbing. Native support is best in Chrome, but the docs walk you through adding a polyfill like Azure's speech service to keep transcription consistent elsewhere. That makes it a good fit for dictation fields, voice search, and accessibility helpers when you want a thin layer over the platform rather than a full speech-to-text pipeline.