# Ionic 1 speech recognition

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-1-speech-recognition/95308>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [June 21, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-1-speech-recognition/95308 "2017-06-21T14:37:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![adarshgokul12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adarshgokul12](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/adarshgokul12)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-1-speech-recognition/95308/1 "2017-06-21T14:37:52Z")

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Hi,

How to use voice recognition ionic 1. I have installed “cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-speechrecognition”.

And used var recognition = new SpeechRecognition();  
recognition.start();  
How to implement these functionality…?  
I am able to use text to speak functionality