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title: setSpeechEventTimeout
slug: /reference/typescript/agents/function-result/set-speech-event-timeout
description: Adjust the speech event timeout for noisy environments.
max-toc-depth: 3
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[set-end-of-speech-timeout]: /docs/server-sdks/reference/typescript/agents/function-result/set-end-of-speech-timeout

[functionresult]: /docs/server-sdks/reference/typescript/agents/function-result

Adjust the speech event timeout. This controls how many milliseconds since the
last speech detection event to wait before finalizing recognition. This timeout
works better than [`setEndOfSpeechTimeout()`][set-end-of-speech-timeout]
in noisy environments.

## **Parameters**

<ParamField path="milliseconds" type="number" required={true} toc={true}>
  Timeout in milliseconds.
</ParamField>

## **Returns**

[`FunctionResult`][functionresult] -- `this`, for chaining.

## **Example**

```typescript {4}
import { FunctionResult } from '@signalwire/sdk';

const result = new FunctionResult()
  .setSpeechEventTimeout(2000);
```