Providing an indication of the suitability of speech recognition

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for operating a virtual assistant, the computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for:

• receiving an audio input from an acoustic environment;
• determining a speech recognition suitability value based on the audio input, wherein the speech recognition suitability value represents a suitability of the acoustic environment of the electronic device for speech recognition;
• in accordance with a determination of the speech recognition suitability value, displaying a visual representation of the speech recognition suitability value;
• determining whether the speech recognition suitability value satisfies a predetermined criterion;
• and
• in accordance with a determination that the speech recognition suitability value does not satisfy the predetermined criterion, disabling, by the electronic device, speech recognition functionality on the electronic device.

A system for operating a virtual assistant, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• memory;
• and
• one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
• receiving an audio input from an acoustic environment;
• determining a speech recognition suitability value based on the audio input, wherein the speech recognition suitability value represents a suitability of acoustic environment of the electronic device for speech recognition;
• in accordance with a determination of the speech recognition suitability value, displaying a visual representation of the speech recognition suitability value;
• determining whether the speech recognition suitability value satisfies a predetermined criterion;
• and
• in accordance with a determination that the speech recognition suitability value does not satisfy the predetermined criterion, disabling, by the electronic device, speech recognition functionality on the electronic device.