Solved Google's voice services (search, docs, translate) not working in Vivaldi

[Marxin]

@doctorg OMG I didn't know, they charged for it.

[DoctorG]

@marxin Yes, to access the Google Voice recognition servers by browser you need to pay as commercial browser producer.

[jhonca]

It is not a critical problem, but it seems a bit strange to me that the microphone does not work in the google translation page, when I click on the microphone icon I get a message: "cannot connect to the network. RETRY"
https://translate.google.es/?sl=ru&tl=es&op=translate

on the bing translation page it works without problems.
https://www.bing.com/Translator?toWww=1&redig=918B84C7A9274964AEA6F1687B773190

is a strategy to drive users to microsoft? XD
or is google limiting the use of this service to vivaldi? (this makes more sense)

I would like to solve this small problem, but i do not know where to start, I already searched the web, in the vivaldi forum and only found old problems on mac and windows, it would also be good to know if someone else has the same problem.

[DoctorG]

@jhonca You will not get this in near future. Licence payments per annum and installation, and approbation of Vivaldi by Google is needed.

//MODEDIT: marked this post as a "solution", for better visibility as the answer to the question of why the voice services don't work in Vivaldi

[Pathduck]

@jhonca said in The microphone does not work on the google translate page:

or is google limiting the use of this service to vivaldi? (this makes more sense)

Well, it's the other way around. Google is limiting use of this service to their own browser, excluding everyone else. Including Firefox, Brave, Opera etc.

It works in Edge, maybe because Google and MS are best buds? Or because MS paid the dosh to be allowed in.

It also would not surprise me if MS once they get a larger browser share will do the exact same thing on their service. After all, those CPU cycles for speech recognition costs $$$, so why allow dirty competitors, it makes complete business sense.

[jhonca]

@doctorg thank you very much, for the clarification, this will make me concentrate my resources on looking for alternatives.

[jhonca]

@pathduck Yes, I also realized that this service is not available in firefox, but being basically chromium I found it a bit weird.

I guess google can live without the feedback of other browsers.

the good thing is that in android this service works perfectly.

I hope apple can say the same.

[leo32345]

@pathduck Sorry, but isn't Vivaldi's user agent the same as Chrome's?

[Pathduck]

@leo32345 Yes, but there's more than just the UA going on here. I think that since the button is not greyed out like in other browsers like Firefox, the site does "think" it's seeing Chrome.

But there's more to it, maybe a component that Vivaldi is missing or an API key that needs to be sent before it works.

[leo32345]

@jhonca Hey I found an alternative

By the way, some users have complained that the translate doesn't work. To fix this, replace "Automatic Detection" to the language.

[jhonca]

@leo32345 thanks for the suggestion, but I was referring to looking for alternatives for voice translation.

in this case I think that the bing voice translator is our best ally.
https://www.bing.com/Translator

[Sousan]

Does anybody know why Google search doesn't work? It keeps saying there is no Internet connection. anyone knows how to fix it or is that the bug involved the vivaldi?

[Pesala]

@sousan It is not a bug, it is a missing feature. Vivaldi would have to pay to use Google voice search.

[mrodic]

I´m just corious , why does this option work in MS Edge browser and not in vivalda? Did Microsoft pay for this service or is it something else?

[Pesala]

@mrodic Please read the preceding posts.

[DoctorG]

@mrodic said in Google voice search not working:

why does this option work in MS Edge browser

Microsoft pays annual&per Edge-installation license fees to Google.

[mrodic]

@doctorg ok, thnx for the info

[markTpalmos]

Hi,
Go to https://google.co.uk and click the microphone in the search field.... this should result in being able to speak a search request, but Vivaldi says "no internet available" - I have chosen No Blocking for the page, refreshed it, but it still does not work. It works fine, 100% of the time on Chrome.
tx
Mark.

[DoctorG]

@markTpalmos Voice Search is a paid Google Service and Vivaldi has no contract to use licenses from Google.

[markTpalmos]

@DoctorG said in voice search says "no internet connection":

@markTpalmos Voice Search is a paid Google Service and Vivaldi has no contract to use licenses from Google.

Hi
By "paid service" do you mean people who don't have paid-for Google accounts cannot use Voice Search function, because I've just tried with my wife and mother's accounts, and both work fine, and they have free Google Accounts...
I've just tried with Chrome without being logged in as any user, also works fine...
Also, I have just tried Edge (not signed in to anything)... works fine too!

tx
Mark