SFSpeechRecognizer - detect end of utterance : <p>I am hacking a little project using iOS 10 built-in speech recognition. I have working results using device's microphone, my speech is recognized very accurately.</p>

<p>My problem is that recognition task callback is called for every available partial transcription, and I want it to <strong>detect person stopped talking</strong> and call the callback with <code>isFinal</code> property set to true. It is not happening - app is listening indefinitely.</p>

<p>Is <code>SFSpeechRecognizer</code> ever capable of detecting end of sentence?</p>

<p>Here's my code - it is based on example found on the Internets, it is mostly a boilerplate needed to recognize from microphone source.
I modified it by adding recognition <code>taskHint</code>. I also set <code>shouldReportPartialResults</code> to false, but it seems it has been ignored.</p>

<pre><code>    func startRecording() {

    if recognitionTask != nil {
        recognitionTask?.cancel()
        recognitionTask = nil
    }

    let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
    do {
        try audioSession.setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord)
        try audioSession.setMode(AVAudioSessionModeMeasurement)
        try audioSession.setActive(true, with: .notifyOthersOnDeactivation)
    } catch {
        print("audioSession properties weren't set because of an error.")
    }

    recognitionRequest = SFSpeechAudioBufferRecognitionRequest()
    recognitionRequest?.shouldReportPartialResults = false
    recognitionRequest?.taskHint = .search

    guard let inputNode = audioEngine.inputNode else {
        fatalError("Audio engine has no input node")
    }

    guard let recognitionRequest = recognitionRequest else {
        fatalError("Unable to create an SFSpeechAudioBufferRecognitionRequest object")
    }

    recognitionRequest.shouldReportPartialResults = true

    recognitionTask = speechRecognizer?.recognitionTask(with: recognitionRequest, resultHandler: { (result, error) in

        var isFinal = false

        if result != nil {
            print("RECOGNIZED \(result?.bestTranscription.formattedString)")
            self.transcriptLabel.text = result?.bestTranscription.formattedString
            isFinal = (result?.isFinal)!
        }

        if error != nil || isFinal {
            self.state = .Idle

            self.audioEngine.stop()
            inputNode.removeTap(onBus: 0)

            self.recognitionRequest = nil
            self.recognitionTask = nil

            self.micButton.isEnabled = true

            self.say(text: "OK. Let me see.")
        }
    })

    let recordingFormat = inputNode.outputFormat(forBus: 0)
    inputNode.installTap(onBus: 0, bufferSize: 1024, format: recordingFormat) { (buffer, when) in
        self.recognitionRequest?.append(buffer)
    }

    audioEngine.prepare()

    do {
        try audioEngine.start()
    } catch {
        print("audioEngine couldn't start because of an error.")
    }

    transcriptLabel.text = "Say something, I'm listening!"

    state = .Listening
}
</code></pre>
