Forum Discussion

florianSB's avatar
florianSB
Brass Contributor
Jan 13, 2020

Web Speech API support ?

Currently Edge (81.0.381.0) is behaving strange when using the Web Speech API for speech recognition. The interface exists, but does not work AND does not throw any error. Here is a quick code examp...
  • GurpreetV's avatar
    GurpreetV
    Feb 12, 2020

    florianSB thanks for reporting this issue. We are aware of this and are working to wire up Speech recognition in the upcoming future versions of Edge for our customers. Once this feature is out in Canary, I will let you know so you can try it out.

GurpreetV's avatar
GurpreetV
Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft
Feb 12, 2020

florianSB thanks for reporting this issue. We are aware of this and are working to wire up Speech recognition in the upcoming future versions of Edge for our customers. Once this feature is out in Canary, I will let you know so you can try it out.

  • __Isaac's avatar
    __Isaac
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 23, 2020

    GurpreetV Any news about this functionality, as the guy above, i'm still using Chrome only for this 😞 

    • Deleted's avatar
      Deleted
      Jul 24, 2020

      __Isaac After checking-in with the team, I'm happy to confirm that this is still in the works! It sounds like there were some unexpected technical roadblocks, but they are still moving forward.

       

      Fawkes (they/them)
      Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

      • florianSB's avatar
        florianSB
        Brass Contributor
        Jul 27, 2020

        Deleted 

        Good to hear 🙂

        It would still be good to throw at least a proper error message until the actual speech recognition is connected. I don't want to return to the old days where I need to check the navigator user-agent before I can use the API properly 😕

        Currently Edge still pretends to do something instead of failing gracefully.

  • Michael1895's avatar
    Michael1895
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 17, 2020

    GurpreetV yes please let me know about progress with this.

  • orlink's avatar
    orlink
    Copper Contributor
    May 27, 2020

    GurpreetV Please let me know as well.  Perhaps you could also update this thread.

  • florianSB's avatar
    florianSB
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 17, 2020

    Great, thank you. Looking forward to it! 🙂

    • WPalombini's avatar
      WPalombini
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 18, 2020

      This is still not working on Edge Canary 84.0.488.0

      The Speech Recognition starts (onspeechstart event) but no response is received (onresult event).

Resources