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NicolSD
Steel Contributor
May 15, 2019

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.

  • florianSB's avatar
    florianSB
    Jan 13, 2020
    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.
  • Bannykjk775's avatar
    Bannykjk775
    Copper Contributor
    May 17, 2019

    NicolSD 

    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.

     

  • utsav100's avatar
    utsav100
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 02, 2021

    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

  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    May 15, 2019

    NicolSD 

    The mic works for me when I use Skype on the Canary build.

     

    Not the same as what your doing, but it picks up and uses my webcams mic(Logitech  C270) using Windows default drivers for mic & video as there are problems with using the Logitech drivers and running Core Isolation - Memory Integrity, probably Logitech won't update their certificates for it😉

     

    So try using the default drivers for your mic.

    Device manager

    find driver(Audio inputs outputs)

    select update driver

    select browse computer

    select let me pick

    select default "Audio inpoint"Audio Endpoint

     

     

    • NicolSD's avatar
      NicolSD
      Steel Contributor
      May 15, 2019

      Deleted I checked my driver and it is not signed by Logitech but by Microsoft. It uses the Generic USB Audio Device. The driver provider is Microsoft and the driver date is 2019-05-08. My Surface Pro 4 has the same problem using its own microphone.

  • Noel Burgess's avatar
    Noel Burgess
    Steel Contributor
    Mar 02, 2020

    NicolSD

     

     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's avatar
      MissyQ
      Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft
      Mar 02, 2020

      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

  • netplaceus's avatar
    netplaceus
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 11, 2020

    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!