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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
Microsoft
MicrosoftflorianSB 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 Any news about this functionality, as the guy above, i'm still using Chrome only for this 😞
__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 EdgeDeleted
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.
florianSB I wanted to let you know that the devs liked your suggestion so much that they've written that error message into code. Thanks for your feedback! 🙂
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Deleted Awesome! I can't wait to ditch Chrome for Edge when using Duolingo!
