Microphone not working on google and g.ai

jashmota · January 8, 2026, 3:30am

Microphone doesn’t work on google.com or g.ai
I have seen many people complain about this over 3 or more years without any solution or response. Wondering if there is a fix to this?

289wk · January 8, 2026, 3:59am

@jashmota

github.com/brave/brave-browser

Unable to use microphone (affects Duolingo, Google Translate, and other sites)

opened 03:02AM - 15 Mar 19 UTC

MGRussell

privacy priority/P2 webcompat/not-shields-related audio blocked privacy/connect OS/Desktop

## Brave Software staff comment (by @bsclifton) - **19 Nov 2019**: This feature …relies on a Speech API key that we would need to create and pay for on a per-use basis. [We could enable this for our API key](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3725#issuecomment-555694620) but the cost would be very high and there are privacy concerns. - **6 Jul 2023**: [We started looking at a custom solution](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3725#issuecomment-1623880485). - **24 Jan 2025**: We have been continuing to look into a [custom solution using Lingvanex](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3725#issuecomment-2613151950). Proof of concept has been done - but lots of challenges since starting to look at it initially. - **10 Jun 2025**: Current approach is to wait for improvements to WebSpeech API (Chromium 139; ~5 Aug 2025). [See comment here for more info](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3725#issuecomment-2959189607). ## Original issue details by @MGRussell This issue was previously opened in the browser-laptop repo [here](https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/4476) and was archived without resolution with numerous OS/versions chiming in. I am reopening it here, and reporting with Windows 7 with Brave Version 0.61.51 Chromium: 73.0.3683.75 (Official Build) (64-bit). [This](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/2802) may be a related issue which mentions that Webspeech API is disabled within Brave. ## Description The browser does not function properly with Duolingo. The site asks for permission to use the microphone and everything seems to work fine, but it seems no input is ever being sent from brave to the site. The site only officially supports chrome and so this is something that would need to be remedied on Brave's end, if the browser is to be capable of using Duolingo. ## Steps to Reproduce The browser fails on any tests from Duolingo that asks the user to send voice data, 100% of the time. ### Website problems only: The issue does not resolve when disabling brave shields. This issue is not present on the latest version of Chrome.

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