google translate voice mode (microphone button) doesnt work in brave

[ramy0082]

i cant use google translate voice mode in brave browser it works Appropriately in other browsers like Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome .

it always says can’t connect To network

And the things I did was reinstalling the browser turn off Brave Shield and also disable the extensions and even check the permissions of the microphone two or three times but nothing worked
i saw another post on community it was for 5 years ago and i dont know why this issue is still persist this long .
i hope it will fix in next update .

here is the screenshot

[289wk]

Recent microphone not working issues:

‘Microphone not working on Brave but works fine with other browsers’

‘Brave detects my microphone, but websites cannot use it’

cc: @Mattches

[Mattches]

This has been a known issue – Please see:

Google search-by-voice displays "no internet connection"

and

Can't use the microphone to search on google.com

Hi @Keifus - thanks for reporting. This is a known issue and something that the team has investigated here - https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3725. Here’s the most relevant comment from the issue: "Hi folks, sorry for the lack of update here. It’s a bit of a gnarly issue, and it gets me hopping mad. First of all: this isn’t a problem with the microphone — it’s a speech recognition API. Chrome ships with a non-standard API used for speech recognition. Websites which call the API…

[ramy0082]

I appreciate that

I dont have problem in other sites and even with google voice search and also gemini its just with google translate for me

Thanks

[ramy0082]

I appreciate that

I dont have problem in other sites and even with google voice search and also gemini its just with google translate for me

Thanks

[Mattches]

Translate, search-by-voice, etc. all leverage the same (or similar) Speech recognition API. Quoting from the thread I linked above:

@Cant use the microphone to search on google.com

First of all: this isn’t a problem with the microphone — it’s a speech recognition API. Chrome ships with a non-standard API used for speech recognition. Websites which call the API are asking the browser to transcribe audio on behalf of the website and send the site the transcribed text (not the audio). When a site calls this API in Chrome, Chrome sends the raw audio to a Google server for transcription. The Google server parses the raw audio, and send the transcribed text back to Chrome. Chrome then passes the text to the website.

There are two problems with this. The simple straightforward problem is that Brave doesn’t have access to that Google transcription service. It’s a paid service from Google which Chrome gets to use for free. If Brave wanted to use it, we’d have to pay Google for the privilege. The second and much more substantial issue is that I don’t think that anyone reasonably expects clicking a microphone icon on Duolingo to result in Brave sending their audio to Google .

[jdoven]

The list of websites that offer speech-to-text or dictation services based on Google’s proprietary speech recognition API is shrinking due to the rapid deployment of new AI technologies. Google’s own Gemini and, recently, Google Search voice input don’t rely on the API. ChatGPT and similar services don’t use it.

But Google Translate and many other sites still do, and for them you can use the polyfill extension here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/speech-recognition-polyfi/doblhjbaejoemfphomdmppkaookicmdd

It works great in Brave. It supports both the old and new server backends used by Google to power the API in Chrome. Due to the somewhat unauthorized use of the servers by this extension, you may find that you need to switch the backend server if the active one doesn’t seem to be working, but the extension makes it simple to do.

Edit: Forgot to mention, in the case of Google Translate, our friends at Google may detect that your browser is not Chrome and preemptively disable the voice input button on the page. You can get around that by pasting this line of code in the dev console, but expect this to break at some point in the future: document.querySelector('span[jsmodel] button[aria-label="Translate by voice"]').disabled=false;