Xcode – Dictation (Speech Recognition) text does not match a string in Swift

I have developed a speech recognition function that can detect Arabic audio and return a string, I assign it to a var called speechRecogText.

Within the code I also have a text field which I store the input in another string var called textFieldText.

Goal I want to be able to check if the speechRecogText contains wants in the textFieldText, this works normally with English but for Arabic it does not work.

However when I try the opposite way speechRecogText.contains(textFieldText) it works. Code below

    // the two variables
    var speechRecogText: String = ""
    var textFieldText: String = ""

Speech Recognition functions and Textfield… After I enter the inputs I call the function compareTexts()

func compareTexts() {
    
    // Checking the textField text
    if speechRecogText.contains(textFieldText) {
        print("matching texts")
    } else {
        print("not matching")
    }
    
    // Checking the speech recog text
    if textFieldText.contains(speechRecogText) {
        print("matching texts")
    } else {
        print("not matching")
    }
}

For example both would print word "قل" in Arabic. But when I call the function, the console shows (answer):

Console 
//matching texts
//not matching

I want the second one to also work/match and print matching texts.

Although both variables contain similar text the result is a bit confusing. Do they not store same values or is it they show the same stringa but deep in code they vary somehow?

I would really appreciate your support 🙂

Here is the entire code

This is the Entire Code.

import SwiftUI
import SwiftSpeech

struct ContentView: View {
    
    @State var speechRecogText = "قل"
    @State var textFieldText = "قل"
    
    var body: some View {
        
        VStack {
            
            //MARK: - Text Field
                        
            TextField("textfield text", text: $textFieldText)
                .padding()
            
            Button(action: {
                compareTexts()
            } ) {
                ZStack {
                    Color.blue.clipShape(Circle()).frame(width: 70, height: 70)
                    Text("Check").foregroundColor(.white)
                }
            }
            
            
            //MARK: - Speech Recognition
            
            
            Text("speechRecogText: " + speechRecogText)
            
            SwiftSpeech.RecordButton()
                .swiftSpeechRecordOnHold(locale: Locale(identifier: "ar"),
                                         animation: .spring(),
                                         distanceToCancel: 50)

                .onRecognizeLatest { result in
                    self.speechRecogText = result.bestTranscription.formattedString
                    if result.isFinal {
                        print("last transcript")
                    }
                } handleError: { error in
                    print("Failed recognizing the audio. Retry: (error)")
                }
        }
        
    }
    

    func compareTexts() {
        // Checking the textField text
        if speechRecogText.contains(textFieldText) {
            print("---> speechRecogText contains textFieldText")
        } else {
            print("---> speechRecogText DOES NOT contains textFieldText")
        }

        // Checking the speech recog text
        if textFieldText.contains(speechRecogText) {
            print("---> textFieldText contains speechRecogText")
        } else {
            print("---> textFieldText DOES NOT contains speechRecogText")
        }
    }
}