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Brass Contributor

Jan 13, 2020

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Web Speech API support ?

Currently Edge (81.0.381.0) is behaving strange when using the https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecognition for speech recognition. The interface exists, but does not work AND d...

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.

__Isaac

Copper Contributor

Jul 23, 2020

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

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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
Brass Contributor
Jul 27, 2020
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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.
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  Aug 11, 2020
  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
  - florianSB
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 12, 2020
    Great! 😄
    Does that mean we can expect it in the next dev version? ^^
caresrg
Brass Contributor
Jul 25, 2020
Deleted Awesome! I can't wait to ditch Chrome for Edge when using Duolingo!