Web Speech API Down

[ToddTaylor]

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

In my own custom developer speech-to-text web application, I've been receiving a "network" exception for several days. I'm seeing the same issue when attempting to use the Speech Color Changer demo, thus eliminating my code as being the cause of the issue. The web developer console does not show any error messages, like because the web app script is catching the exception.

Using Telerik's Fiddler, it appears as though a call is being made to a Google speech API "under the covers" and it is returning a 400 response:

https://www.google.com/speech-api/full-duplex/v1/down?key=qztbjzBqJueQZLFkwTTJrieu8Vw3789u&pair=CD1CBA47B337E03C&output=pb

Because the above URL is returning a 400, does this mean that browser speech-to-text recognition is dead? If not, is there a URL I can go to see the status of the service? I don't see how anyone can use this feature when it's so unstable.

Browser(s): Full patched / updated Brave and Microsoft Edge

https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/speech-color-changer/

What did you expect to see?

The Speech Color Changer app should not being reporting a "network" error, but instead should convert incoming speech to a color.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/speech-color-changer/

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

[caugner]

Hi @ToddTaylor, I just tried this dom-example in Chrome 134 on macOS, and it worked without issues.

However, I can reproduce issues in Brave 1.76.74 (Chromium 134) and Edge 134:

• Brave shows Error occurred in recognition: network
• Edge shows Error occurred in recognition: language-not-supported

The Brave limitation seems to be a known issue: brave/brave-browser#2802

Edit: As for Edge, I have reported the issue via "Help and Feedback" > "Send feedback", and reached out to the Edge team, so they will look into it.

[caugner]

As this seems to be a compatibility issue, and there is nothing wrong with the example itself, I'm going ahead and close this issue as won't fix.