When I hit the microphone on the Google search page I get a "no internet connection" error message

[Rethanis]

That’s unfortunately true. I can’t tell anything more but link a post by @steeven who has explained quite a few things about the issue.

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…