iOS 14 on-device speech recognition

Question

Last year, apple released on-device speech recognition starting with iOS 13. I've been playing with it and I haven't been able to get it to work on any of the simulators. The only way that it works is if I plug in an actual device. Is this how it's expected to be?

This is strongly influenced by this question. I have tried the answer on all of the simulators and it is stuck on downloading: "This Siri voice will take effect when downloaded"

Sample code can be found here . I've modified it with the below block:

private let speechRecognizer = SFSpeechRecognizer(locale: Locale(identifier: "en-US"))!
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if #available(iOS 14, *) {            
    if speechRecognizer.supportsOnDeviceRecognition {
       recognitionRequest.requiresOnDeviceRecognition = true
       print("recognitionRequest.requiresOnDeviceRecognition:", recognitionRequest.requiresOnDeviceRecognition)
    }
}

Answer 1

Yes indeed. You must use physical device for speech recognition support. You must use microphone input which is not supported in the simulator. It is quite common for some capabilities to not be supported in the simulator. Specifically voice relate. link

In the WWDC video they also mentioned all supported devices (you must have A9 core).