expo-speech-recognition

Why we included this project

Adding speech-to-text to an Expo app usually means juggling platform-specific SDKs, but this library folds the native recognizers on iOS, Android, and the web into a single API. The same hooks and module calls work across all three targets, so a voice search or dictation feature written once runs everywhere. It also covers the unglamorous parts that eat up development time: permission handling, transcribing audio files that were already recorded, volume metering, language detection, and pulling down offline models on Android. The config plugin takes care of the native manifest and permission setup, which makes it a practical drop-in for teams shipping voice-driven features in React Native.