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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 bui...
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    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.
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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.  

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    MissyQ
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    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

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        TinkerBell2020
        Copper Contributor
        Jun 19, 2020

        DonGill999 

         

         

        Update please? This issue impacts accessing the Google homepage (https://www.google.com/) as well when using Microsoft Edge and prevents the microphone icon from appearing. If I access this page using a Chrome browser, there is a microphone in the search bar that you can click to verbally dictate search queries. If I access the page using the Edge browser, the microphone is not visible. I have tried using the Windows Key + H command, but it is pretty laggy and buggy. I have clicked the lock in the address bar to change the site permissions and attempted to give access to the microphone, yet it does not provide me that option (only shows me the ability to enable Adobe Flash). Finally I have activated microphone access privileges through Windows 10 settings / privacy menu but it has no impact either.  

         

        Microsoft, when can we expect this bug to be fixed? I feel that Edge is vastly superior to Chrome and would like to continue using as my primary browser. However, I don't to have to open up a Chrome window just to use the microphone dictation feature.

         

        current version:

        Microsoft Edge 41.16299.15.0

        Microsoft EdgeHTML 16.16299

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      Deathmo1976
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 19, 2020

      Any news  on that?MissyQ 

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        MissyQ
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        Apr 20, 2020

        Deathmo1976 Appreciate the poke for an update here. Unfortunately I have no new updates to provide. The team is still working on it, though!

         

        Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
        Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

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