Added #

• Production Release: First stable release of Flutter Google Speech-to-Text plugin
• Real-time speech recognition using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text REST API
• Cross-platform support for Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift)
• Google Cloud API key authentication support
• Microphone permission handling with native platform requests
• Configurable language codes and audio settings (16kHz PCM audio)
• Clean, production-ready codebase with proper error handling
• Comprehensive API documentation and examples
• Full test coverage with unit and integration tests

Changed #

• Package Name: Updated to com.guptan404.flutter_google_stt
• API Implementation: Uses REST API instead of gRPC for better compatibility
• Error Handling: Improved error reporting with specific error codes
• Code Quality: Removed debug logs and optimized for production use

Technical Details #

• Android implementation using AudioRecord and OkHttp3
• iOS implementation using AVAudioEngine and URLSession
• Method channel communication between Dart and native platforms
• Support for interim and final transcription results
• Automatic audio chunking and processing

Added #

• Initial development release
• Basic speech recognition functionality
• Example app for testing
• Full API documentation and setup instructions

Features #

• initialize() method for setting up Google Cloud credentials
• startListening() method with real-time transcript callbacks
• stopListening() method for ending speech recognition
• isListening property to check current state
• hasMicrophonePermission and requestMicrophonePermission for permission management
• Support for interim and final transcription results
• Error handling with detailed error messages

Technical Details #

• Android: Uses AudioRecord for audio capture and Google Cloud Speech gRPC client
• iOS: Uses AVAudioEngine for audio capture and REST API calls
• Proper audio session management on iOS
• Privacy manifest support for iOS App Store requirements
• Gradle dependencies management for Android
• CocoaPods integration for iOS

Documentation #

• Comprehensive README with setup instructions
• API reference documentation
• Example usage code
• Google Cloud setup guide
• Platform-specific configuration instructions