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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.
cbomtempo
Iron Contributor
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/
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May 15, 2019I sent Google feedback including the information from edge://version/