How to return one alternative (with highest confidence) without returning all the options?

Author: sapienza88Created Feb 27, 2025Updated May 13, 2026

I want to expedite the recognition step which I use as follows:

self.recognizer.recognize_google(audio, language="English",show_all=False)

and returns many possibilities which I don't want.

I instead want to have one result (the one with highest confidence)

show_all=False doesn't actually do that

how to do that?

Source: Uberi/speech_recognition