1597637 - The speech recognition is not working when CPU is at 100% on Windows 7

Status: NEW

(Core :: Web Speech, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Note

• When the user attempts to use the speech recognition feature while the machine's CPU is at 100%, he will notice that not text is returned after speech.

Affected versions

• Nightly v72.0a1

Affected platforms

• Windows 7

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the browser and flip the following prefs to "true":

• media.webspeech.recognition.enable
• media.webspeech.recognition.force_enable

2. Overload CPU to 100% using the following tutorial:
   https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-create-100-cpu-load-in-windows-10/
3. Go to https://translate.google.com/
4. Select English as the input language, click the mic button and speak into the mic.

Expected result

• Words are being translated from speech to strings.

Actual result

• The mic button's animation stops and nothing gets input into the input box.

Additional notes

• This issue does not occur on Chrome.
• This issue does not happen on other operating systems.
  This demo page (https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html) gives out the error "No speech was detected. You may need to adjust your microphone settings.".

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:anatal, could you have a look please?

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