Commands don't work of languages with non-english characters

So the speech recognition does support for instance, hebrew, however when trying to write a command in hebrew, the callback isn’t summoned. according to the transcript, it was spoken perfectly, but it did not activate the command callback that was set up. Also, resetTranscript does not work when called by handleReset (or perhaphs it’s just not called), only with the spoken ‘clear’ command

 const { resetTranscript } = useSpeechRecognition()
  const commands = [
    {
      command: 'clear',
      callback: ({ resetTranscript }) => resetTranscript()
    },
    {
      command: ['Everything is working','Nothing is working','Just the audio works','Just the video works','שלום'],
      callback: (command, spokenPhrase ) => {
      sendAns(spokenPhrase)
        handleReset();
    },
      isFuzzyMatch: true,
      fuzzyMatchingThreshold: 0.2},
  ]

  const { transcript } = useSpeechRecognition({ commands })
  const handleReset = useCallback(() => {
      SpeechRecognition.stopListening()
      SpeechRecognition.startListening({
        continuous:true, 
        language: 'he'
      })
  },[]);
  if (!SpeechRecognition.browserSupportsSpeechRecognition()) {
    return null
  }else{
    SpeechRecognition.startListening({
      continuous:true, 
      language: 'he'
    });
  }

for reference, the sendAns command sends the spoken phrase back to the parent

[Nitzahon]

I found a solution that appears to work! I connected my webcam stream to hark and had it set a redux boolean on the speaking and stopped_speaking events. then I added this useEffect:

 useEffect(() => {
    if(isRecog && !listening){
      SpeechRecognition.startListening({
        language: language
      });
    }
    else if(!isRecog && listening){
      SpeechRecognition.stopListening();
    }
  }, [isRecog,listening,language])

isRecog is a selector from redux signaling a request to record. All I need now is to make sure it doesn’t interfere with the media recorder I have set up, but I think this is a great solution for anyone looking to activate speech recognition when the user speaks.

[Nitzahon]

I’ll probably change my code then, to manually start the listen on a function call. but I will also need to recognize when listening has stopped.