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Edge can't use the mic in the Google Translate page
Edge Canary and Dev don't seem to know how to use a microphone. I tried the following steps both on a workstation connected to a Logitech's Brio webcam's microphone, and a Surface Pro 4 using the built-in microphone.
1- Go to Google's translate page www.translate.google.com
2- Select a language to translate from
3- Click on the microphone icon in box for the language of origin
4- Authorize access to mic if requested then start speaking when prompted
5- Expected result: Edge uses the mic to listen to what I say
6- What's happening: Edge doesn't pick up anything from the mic.
Google Chrome has no difficulty using Brio's microphone nor the Surface Pro 4's. Windows' Voice recorder also has no difficulty using the same mic.
- My guess is that all these Tools use the WebSpeechApi which only works on Google Chrome/Chromium (at least the recognition part) because Google uses it's own cloud servers for the audio transcription. Since the new Edge is basically Chromium it probably thinks that the WebSpeechApi is supported and breaks. The API behaves very strange currently in Edge.
i also have this when i click in mic icon it says can't connect to the network i have already given access mic in microsoft edge browser
Well, almost 2 years later and problem keeps the same, actually, it's worse if you think that ALL the others browser have the same problem, just Chrome is okay to use. That's terrible.
oicaua33 The latest tests I've done with Edge Canary were actually pretty successful and stable using my own app AND on the Google Search page as well. In Edge Dev it was working for a while but seems to be gone again (or behind the flag? idk).
Don't expect any other browser to work soon btw, since the company (Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple etc.) has to run the speech recognition servers. Google is doing it for ages (this includes Android), Microsoft and Apple are doing it, but only for their own OS (Windows: Cortana, MacOS, iOS: Siri) and Mozilla can't afford it 😞
Just to keep this thread alive and perhaps bring a little seasonal good news, I'd point out that voice input to Google pages is, as far as I can tell, working well in the Canary and now Dev channels, so barring last minute hiccups we should see it in the Stable channel next month.
the problem that me and some others are having is with Google.com voice search
it still doesn't work in version 89.0.731.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
the top feedback list also refers to google.com
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-december-8/m-p/1968074
see if you can get it to work on canary
Working fine for me in 89.0.731.0. I've only tried google.com and translate.google.com, but the experience is the same at both sites.
What happens when you try? Are you still seeing the error message I see on Stable?
In my opinion there is nothing wrong, it is not a bug that the ONLY browser that can access Google translate and Google voice search is the google browser Chrome. Don't be naive, what would you expect Microsoft to say? Yeah, right, it's a bug. The microphone will work just fine with non-Google services. Seriously, Microsoft (and the others) have a HUGH incentive to fix this problem (if they could) or lose browser popularity and Google has every incentive to BLOCK that functionality to keep you around using Chrome services they pay for and developed. Microsoft Edge microphone works fine with BING!
NicolSD are you still facing this problem?
If yes, make sure report it through Feedback option in Microsoft Edge.
- sadasdasd
MissyQ Deleted
Any chance of an official reaction to this bug that's apparently affecting lots of users?
To recap: speech recognition doesn't work when using Edge to access some Google properties like translate.google.com. The microphone input is recognized at other sites and at the affected sites when using Chrome.
- MissyQ
Microsoft
Noel Burgess Thanks for tagging! This is actually a known issue, and the team is working on it. I'm happy to follow up here once we know the fix is in place. 🙂
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
I also have this issue with Google voice search (the mic icon on the right of the search box).
And Duolingo when taking questions needing mic input.
I've tried two computers and they both don't work, but they do work with Google Chrome.
I'm guessing it's not the issue with Google, but something with Microsoft Edge itself.
It seems like the browser has no problem receiving the mic input, but it couldn't process it or send it to the server.
NicolSD Just to confirm, I've tried with other websites, like https://webcammictest.com/check-microphone.html and they all seems to work fine. The issue only happens with https://translate.google.com/
I sent Google feedback including the information from edge://version/
