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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...
- 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.
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.