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NicolSD
Iron Contributor
May 15, 2019
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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...
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    florianSB
    Jan 13, 2020
    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.
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florianSB
Brass Contributor
Jan 06, 2021
Just updated my Canary build and it looks like the bugs I've mentioned earlier are fixed 🙂
Waiting for Dev Build updates now 😄
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HotCakeX
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Jan 06, 2021

florianSB 

That's nice, although Google speech search is still not working on Canary for me.

do you still use mspeech commandline switch ?

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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Feb 20, 2021
    Yeah, same here still not working
    Edge Version 90.0.803.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
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    Lioncat55
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 20, 2021

    HotCakeX Having the same issue here. Running the latest stable build (I think) 88.0.705.74.

     

     Youtube voice search, but google search just gives me an error. Really annoying.

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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Jan 27, 2021
    Oh, yeah the same false error shows up on my screen too every time i test it
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    florianSB
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 27, 2021

    HotCakeX Crashes are pretty easy to reproduce now, just try to use voice search on Google 2-3 times in a row. This is (in my case) true for Canary and Dev right now where Dev usually doesn't even recognize speech and just shows "no internet connection".

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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Jan 11, 2021
    lol very weird
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    florianSB
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 11, 2021

    HotCakeX ok so I have a really strange new behavior now ^^.

    In Canary it works ... but sometimes the whole browser crashes O_o

    In the newest Dev its stuck in the "listening..." screen 😐

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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Jan 08, 2021

    florianSB 

    a Windows and Edge clean reinstall didn't fix it.

    the speech to text even works on YouTube's voice search. so it works on YouTube, Google translate, Google's WebspeechAPI text site, just not on Google.com

     

    i don't use Google as my search engine but this is very weird.

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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Jan 06, 2021
    Yeah mic is allowed, still doesn't work and same no internet error

    I will reinstall Edge canary soon as I can and report back how it goes, hopefully it's just my Edge canary that's somehow corrupted and a reinstall will fix it.
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    florianSB
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 06, 2021
    I've just tested it with and without any flags and it seems I don't need the flag anymore. Google speech search is working fine as well (just make sure to allow microphone access ... I usually disable permissions and forget to reactivate sometimes ^^).

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