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florianSB
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Jan 13, 2020
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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...
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    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.

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florianSB
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Aug 24, 2020

Deleted it looks like the latest dev channel version is throwing some error now, not quite the error I'd expect but good enough :smile:.

Also I'm excited to see that the "voice search" topic has made it to the top feedback list with the status "planned for September" which will probably fully implement the feature soon and fix all problems with the Web Speech API  :cool:

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HenryLin
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Oct 01, 2020

Is there any support now? It's already October

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    florianSB
    Brass Contributor
    Oct 05, 2020

    HenryLin 

    Great to hear!

    Lets see what the next Dev build will bring ^^.

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    florianSB
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    Oct 02, 2020

    HenryLin 

    I quickly checked the source code of the page and they only catch microphone and permission errors but ignore everything else 😕

    I've finished work on an update for my voice assistant app to handle the errors properly but the version is not released yet. I'll post a link for testing as soon as it is available 🙂

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    florianSB
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    Oct 01, 2020

    HenryLin 

    My latest Edge version 87.0.654.0 is giving an error message now (which is good) but this message says "language not supported" even for "en-US" locale (which is bad).

    Let's see what the next official patch-notes say. Maybe the "fix" for September was not about implementing a working version but just to properly tell a website that its not supported yet 😕

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