May 14 2019 07:47 PM - edited May 15 2019 12:49 PM
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 built-in microphone.
1- Go to Google's translate page www.translate.google.com
2- Select a language to translate from
3- Click on the microphone icon in box for the language of origin
4- Authorize access to mic if requested then start speaking when prompted
5- Expected result: Edge uses the mic to listen to what I say
6- What's happening: Edge doesn't pick up anything from the mic.
Google Chrome has no difficulty using Brio's microphone nor the Surface Pro 4's. Windows' Voice recorder also has no difficulty using the same mic.
Dec 16 2020 02:24 AM
@HotCakeX I've used the feedback button in Edge Dev as well so I hope they'll notice it!
Dec 24 2020 04:33 AM
@HotCakeX wrote:I'm assuming it's different from Google translate voice because that one works fine for me
Does it work on the test page? Web Speech API Demonstration
Dec 24 2020 07:35 AM
@Noel Burgess wrote:
@HotCakeX wrote:I'm assuming it's different from Google translate voice because that one works fine for me
Does it work on the test page? Web Speech API Demonstration
yes, it works on there too, even though the performance of that site is bad. i speak hello and then after 3-4 seconds i see the word appear there.
so far, only Google search at Google.com is having problem.
which I don't really care since I use Bing. the problem could even be an intentional block from Google's side. because the evidence shows Web Speech API works, on Google translate and that Web Speech API test site.
Jan 06 2021 01:49 AM
Jan 06 2021 04:44 AM
That's nice, although Google speech search is still not working on Canary for me.
do you still use mspeech commandline switch ?
Jan 06 2021 09:22 AM
Jan 06 2021 11:11 AM
Jan 08 2021 12:21 AM
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.
Jan 11 2021 02:36 AM
@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 :|
Jan 27 2021 12:54 AM
@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".
Jan 27 2021 09:32 AM
Feb 19 2021 04:31 PM
@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.
Feb 20 2021 10:05 AM
Apr 25 2021 07:11 AM
Well, almost 2 years later and problem keeps the same, actually, it's worse if you think that ALL the others browser have the same problem, just Chrome is okay to use. That's terrible.
Apr 26 2021 02:10 AM - edited Apr 26 2021 02:14 AM
@oicaua33 The latest tests I've done with Edge Canary were actually pretty successful and stable using my own app AND on the Google Search page as well. In Edge Dev it was working for a while but seems to be gone again (or behind the flag? idk).
Don't expect any other browser to work soon btw, since the company (Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple etc.) has to run the speech recognition servers. Google is doing it for ages (this includes Android), Microsoft and Apple are doing it, but only for their own OS (Windows: Cortana, MacOS, iOS: Siri) and Mozilla can't afford it :(
Aug 01 2021 11:01 PM
i also have this when i click in mic icon it says can't connect to the network i have already given access mic in microsoft edge browser