files/en-us/web/api/speechrecognition/abort/index.md
{{APIRef("Web Speech API")}}
The abort() method of the Web Speech API stops the speech
recognition service from listening to incoming audio, and doesn't attempt to return a
{{domxref("SpeechRecognitionResult")}}.
abort()
None.
None ({{jsxref("undefined")}}).
const recognition = new SpeechRecognition();
const diagnostic = document.querySelector(".output");
const bg = document.querySelector("html");
const startBtn = document.querySelector(".start");
const abortBtn = document.querySelector(".abort");
startBtn.onclick = () => {
recognition.start();
console.log("Ready to receive a color command.");
};
abortBtn.onclick = () => {
recognition.abort();
console.log("Speech recognition aborted.");
};
recognition.onspeechend = () => {
recognition.stop();
console.log("Speech recognition has stopped.");
};
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