973754 - https://www.google.com offers "voice search" in Chrome but not Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1248897

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P3)

Description

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

AFAIK we support everything you'd need to do voice search at least as well as Chrome does (getUserMedia and MediaRecorder).

Comment 1

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

I suppose they may only be looking for navigator.webkitGetUserMedia() but I haven't found the relevant code with a brief look.

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

How do you reproduce the bug? Even when faking a Chrome User Agent on Firefox Desktop (Not logged to Google) I don't see any search feature by voice.

Comment 3

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Attachment: gvoice.png

I reproduce simply by loading the site in Chrome - there is a small microphone icon inside the search box as in this screenshot.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

fwiw, Using Opera (blink) and Safari, latest versions, I have no microphones either. 
This is a bug for webcompat.com ^_^

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Old bug… which was not finished in terms of analysis.
I guess they use webkitSpeechRecognition

```
var QS_L8 = - 1,
QS_M8 = 0,
QS_Z$c = function () {
  QS_A8 = new webkitSpeechRecognition;
  QS_A8.continuous = !1;
  QS_A8.interimResults = !0;
  QS_A8.lang = QS_E$c;
  QS_A8.maxAlternatives = 4;
  QS_A8.onerror = QS_T$c;
  QS_A8.onnomatch = QS_U$c;
  QS_A8.onend = QS_V$c;
  QS_A8.onresult = QS_W$c;
  QS_A8.onaudiostart = QS_X$c;
  QS_A8.onspeechstart = QS_Y$c
},
```

and

```
init: function (a) {
QS_E$c = a.hl;
var b;
if (b = 'webkitSpeechRecognition' in self && !!webkitSpeechRecognition) {
  QS_I8 = QS_k('spch');
  QS_J8 = QS_k('spchc');
  QS_O$c = QS_dad;
  if (b = !!QS_I8 && !!QS_J8) QS_E8 = QS_k('spchf'),
  QS_F8 = QS_k('spchi'),
  QS_M$c(),
  b = !(!QS_E8 || !QS_F8);
  b && (QS_F$c = QS_k('spchb'), QS_D8 = QS_k('spchl'), b = !(!QS_F$c || !QS_D8))
}
```


https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2013/01/Voice-Driven-Web-Apps-Introduction-to-the-Web-Speech-API?hl=en
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html

And probably a duplicate of Bug 1248897

Comment 6

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

I find your analysis very credible, Karl. We can keep this as [notcontactready] til that bug is fixed..

Comment 7

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Let's just close this as a dupe of Bug 1248897.