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NicolSD
May 15, 2019Steel Contributor
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...
- Jan 13, 2020My 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
Microsoft
Mar 02, 2020Noel 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
Noel Burgess
Mar 03, 2020Steel Contributor
MissyQ Thanks!