SpeechToText #808

[VladislavAntonyuk]

Description of Change

Linked Issues

• Fixes [Proposal] SpeechToText #808

PR Checklist

• Has a linked Issue, and the Issue has been approved(bug) or Championed (feature/proposal)
• Has tests (if omitted, state reason in description)
• Has samples (if omitted, state reason in description)
• Rebased on top of main at time of PR
• Changes adhere to coding standard
• Documentation created or updated: SpeechToText MicrosoftDocs/CommunityToolkit#267

Additional information

[brminnick]

Thanks Vlad!

I made a couple tweaks to this PR:

• Changed namespace to CommunityToolkit.Maui.Media
  • This aligns with the namespace of Microsoft.Maui.TextToSpeech and should make it easier to promote this feature into .NET MAUI
• Changed Listen() to ListenAsync()
  • This aligns to the TextToSpeech.SpeakAsync() and should make it easier to promote this feature into .NET MAUI
  • (Albeit, I personally don't like to add the Async suffix unless there's an equivalent non-async suffix
• Changed TextToSpeechImplementation classes from public to internal
  • They don't need to be public and we can avoid future Issues / bugs by keeping them internal
• Added Windows Error Handling
• Updated the Sample App
  • Replaced the Editor with Entry to force users to use speech-to-text
  • Added Label at the top explaining ISpeechToText
  • Added NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription to both iOS + MacCatalyst Info.plist
• Added SharedSpeechToTextImplementation.macios.cs to combine the shared logic between iOS + MacCatalyst
• Ran dotnet format

I test the sample on iOS + MacCatalyst and it works great! I was unable to test on Windows + Android because my current build machine isn't configured properly.

[JoonghyunCho]

Tizen Implementation is added :)

[brminnick]

Thanks Vlad! This is getting really really close!

I confirmed iOS, Android + Windows works.

However, Speech to Text on macOS isn't working for me and I can't quite figure out why. I'll mark this as Request changes just to ensure we address the macOS issue before accidentally merging it.

[brminnick]

Thanks Vlad!

We're really really close to finishing this.

I confirmed that speech-to-text is working on macOS now, but I found a weird bug that I can't figure out: When I speak into an external microphone on my MacBook Pro, the sample app doesn't detect any sound.

Are you able to duplicate + diagnose this behavior?

In the meantime, I'd say that this API surface is finalized and we're free to start working on the docs! @bijington - do you have availability this week to help with docs for this PR?

[VladislavAntonyuk]

@bijington dont worry. I will create a docs pr today.

[VladislavAntonyuk]

@brminnick It works for both microphones:

Screen.Recording.2023-05-16.at.20.14.44.mov

[JoonghyunCho]

I fixed the Tizen implementation to solve the timing issue between prepare and start listening steps.

Completed