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Edge can't use the mic in the Google Translate page
- 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.
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.
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
Presumably this issue is also the same as microphone not working for Google Search ie at https://www.google.co.uk/ ?
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
I think it's important to understand that there are two things at work here.
The first one is a bug and is related to the WebSpeechAPI of the browser. The trivial fix for the bug would be to return a correct error message, indicating that the WebSpeechAPI is not functional. In the context of all websites using this feature like Google Search, Google Translate, DuoLingo etc. this means they can check for speech input support properly and act accordingly (Google usually just hides the microphone button, like it does with Firefox).
The second one is a feature and its up to Microsoft to decide if they want to implement it or not. Technically speaking it means to connect their Windows speech recognition to the WebSpeechAPI of the browser. Since they already offer easy access to the speech interface (Windows + H) I don't see any reason why they want to block this ... so I guess its just a matter of priorities at the moment 😉
Any news on that?MissyQ
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
MissyQ Thanks!
