# Speech recognition feature improvement!
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-feature-improvement/424424
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [January 23, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-feature-improvement/424424 "2020-01-23T21:39:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@davidsobhysabetb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/davidsobhysabetb)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-feature-improvement/424424/1 "2020-01-23T21:39:10Z")
Hi,
I wanna make a simple task using speech recognition, i need to know when exactly the speech recognition stopped listening so that I can call a function to search the spoken word
the problem here i don’t know when to call this function I tried with delay but not always get success !
if just i knew when the speech recognizer block stopped listening then, I think this problem is gone !
Thanks in advance .
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-feature-improvement/424424/2 "2020-01-23T21:52:43Z")
I’m curious about this, too. I noticed you had a 3-second delay so I tried that, too, but there should be a way to detect when the listening has stopped.
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### Author:  [@davidsobhysabetb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/davidsobhysabetb)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-feature-improvement/424424/3 "2020-01-23T21:56:49Z")
Yeah, I agree .
The 3 seconds are not always enough, so that I need to know when exactly !
I think that would make Speech Recognizer more powerful !
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### Author:  [@davidsobhysabetb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/davidsobhysabetb)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-feature-improvement/424424/4 "2020-01-23T22:20:13Z")
I tried to know when block stop listening using that as this pic , It worked good but there are two problems :
1- It can be used only with ’ call listen ’ block so it’s slower than ’ call partial ’ in output
2- when button clicked but no word spoken , then app crashed ( I think it’s general issue in Speech Recognizer )
thanks .
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-feature-improvement/424424/5 "2024-11-08T11:45:53Z")