[SOLVED] Can't capture mic in browsers

[fakeCreazy]

For example, the mic doesn't work in Chromium in Google Translation (recording speech when clicking on mic icon and then typing it in textarea for translation) service or Voice Search (add-on) on my linux. As I remember, it worked in my previous gentoo installation and it works when I boot LIveDVD (11.2).

Web apps just can't record from my mic in browser. I see the volume bar doesn't moves.

So, may be I just forgot to install somethings for this now?

Any ideas?

P.S.: Mic is working and I can capture mic via ffmpeg or in Audacity, but not in browsers...

[epsilon72]

Do you have a mic that is separate from your main soundcard (for example, a USB mic)?

What is your sound configuration like? ALSA? OSS? Pulseaudio? Which desktop environment?

Do you have a ~/.asoundrc, and if so, what are the contents of it?

[fakeCreazy]

[epsilon72]

I don't use pulseaudio with KDE (I use GNOME) but perhaps you could try using pavucontrol to make sure that pulseaudio is set to use the correct input device. If I recall correctly there should be some audio control settings in the KDE systemsettings application to control which audio input to use. You could also use alsamixer to make sure the correct input is toggled as a capture device.

[fakeCreazy]

I use alsamixer and all is fine. I've installed pavucontrol also... all seems fine. Mic works everywhere but browser.

May this be related to this issue? https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7104498.html#7104498
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[epsilon72]

I don't know... it could be that or it could be something else entirely.

A few questions:
1)What web browsers have you tried? (with USE flags too)
2)What kind of sound chip do you have? Is this a laptop or desktop computer?
3)What is the output of:

[fakeCreazy]

I found what has happened! It was turned off by default. I just need enable this when I start the browser. Thanks a lot, epsilon72, for your questions, it was helped me to find out what the problem is. So now, I can dictate instead of typing! Just for everyone who also meet same issue, here is the solution: you need run chromium with `--enable-speech-input` option.
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[epsilon72]

I'm glad you were able to solve the problem. It's strange, because chromium on my system enables speech input automatically.
You can probably put that option in /etc/chromium/default, like so:

[fakeCreazy]

Thanks for the hint. This is works too. This is even better than edit the menu launcher, like I did.
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