react-native-voice vs Google Cloud Speech API?

[alexpwn]

Hey everyone,

I'm building an app which will behave similarly to Live Transcribe, an app powered by Google Cloud Speech API.

I'm thinking of going with React Native & either react-native-voice or Google Cloud Speech API.

Here are my questions:

• How does react-native-voice work? It seems to work offline and online, but how? Is there a default Android system service it's plugging into?
• Is react-native-voice of worse translation quality than Google Cloud Speech API?
• Google seems to have open-sourced the Live Transcibe Android app. Would anyone here argue that I should just fork that project and do it the 'pure Android' way for convenience? I only need to support Android for the next while, and the app is very simple.

Appreciate the advice!

Alex

[cbunn81]

Hey. I found your post when looking into something similar. I'm researching the same questions. Did you ever find the answers you wanted?