Change audiosessioncategory to AVAudioSesstionCategoryPlayAndRecord

[jferas]

This allows it to better coexist with flutter_tts plugin .. without this change, flutter_tts would no longer speak after the speech recognition plugin did its first "listen".

[jferas]

Forgot to mention.. this fixes a problem observed only on iOS.... no problem on Android.

[jaumard]

Hello,

Thanks for the PR, looks a bit weird to add "Play" when this plugin doesn't play anything...
Might be better to let this one by default and have an optional parameter to "speech.listen" method that you can set to have PlayAndRecord instead of just record.

What do you think ?

[jferas]

Good point... I'll push a new commit to the PR that does that... thanks for the feedback.

Hello,

Thanks for the PR, looks a bit weird to add "Play" when this plugin doesn't play anything...
Might be better to let this one by default and have an optional parameter to "speech.listen" method that you can set to have PlayAndRecord instead of just record.

What do you think ?

[jferas]

I was in the middle of modifying the .m code to take the optional parameter "allowPlay" and gave some more thought about it... this optional parameter is not needed for Android, where TTS and Speech Recognition inter-operate well together... so as strange as it seems to have "Play" in the objective C code where category is setup, it seems as strange (if not more so) to pass "allowPlay" in as a parameter at the Flutter/Dart level just to deal with an issue on iOS that makes it work differently than Android.

The more I think about it, I think the approach that doesn't employ the optional parameter makes more sense, as there is no need for the user of the library to think differently about iOS vs Android.

[jaumard]

Having "Play" on iOS make only sens if you want to do TTS too, which is not the case for everyone. I prefer having a useless optional parameter that only people who want TTS will set that putting it by default for everyone. Also if the optional is well documented on the dart side it can say that it's iOS only flag.

I afraid that putting "Play" by default someone will make another PR to remove it because it conflicts with another third library that will not need "Play" or whatever. It's not needed by this plugin so I really prefer not having it by default.

There is few plugin (even official one) that have flag that do stuff only in one specific platform, so I'm not afraid about that, it just have to be documented.

[jaumard]

no move since a year, closing this :) be free to reopen if needed