amharic_stt 0.1.1

On-device Amharic (am-ET) speech-to-text for Flutter. A thin, typed wrapper over platform speech recognizers with honest availability checks and no custom engine.

Changelog

0.1.1

• Fixed pubspec.yaml metadata issues (description length and URLs) to resolve pub.dev scoring warnings.

0.1.0

Initial release.

• AmharicSpeechRecognizer — a typed wrapper over the platform's native speech recognizer (Android SpeechRecognizer, iOS SFSpeechRecognizer), fixed to the Amharic (am-ET) locale. No custom engine and no bundled model.
• startListening() / stopListening() / cancel(), a Stream<String> (transcripts) of partial + final results, and a structured Stream<SpeechResult> (results) with isFinal and optional confidence.
• isAvailable() that honestly reflects device support: on Android 13+ it queries the recognizer's actual supported-language list; it returns false (never crashes/hangs) when Amharic is unavailable.
• Typed AmharicSttException / AmharicSttErrorKind — platform errors (permission denied, locale unavailable, recognizer busy, no match, timeout, network, audio, canceled, not available) are normalised on the native side and never leak as raw PlatformExceptions.
• Example app with a mic button, live partial transcription, start/stop controls, and a visible message when Amharic isn't available on the device.

Test coverage & verification

• The automated test suite mocks the method/event channels and verifies the public API contract only: channel calls/arguments, stream decoding, isAvailable() true/false logic, and typed-error propagation.
• It does not cover real speech recognition. Actual Amharic transcription accuracy depends on the platform model and must be verified manually on a device.
• The native Android/iOS code is written against the documented platform APIs but was not compiled or run on a real device/emulator for this release. flutter analyze and flutter test (package + example) are clean/green.
• See the README "Platform & locale support" and "Verification status" sections for the current honest state of Amharic support (limited on Android, unsupported on iOS at time of writing).