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fakeCreazy n00b
Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 24
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:53 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Can't capture mic in browsers |
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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...
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epsilon72 Guru
Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 568
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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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? |
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fakeCreazy n00b
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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epsilon72 wrote: | Do you have a mic that is separate from your main soundcard (for example, a USB mic)? |
Non-usb, it's normal microphone, plugged in mic jack on my motherboard
epsilon72 wrote: | What is your sound configuration like? ALSA? OSS? Pulseaudio? Which desktop environment? |
/proc/asound/version:
Code: | Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.1 |
and this packages:
Code: | media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.25-r1
media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.35
media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.25
media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.25-r1
media-sound/pulseaudio-1.1-r1
media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.35
media-libs/phonon-gstreamer-4.5.0 |
KDE-4.8.3 and no OSS
epsilon72 wrote: | Do you have a ~/.asoundrc, and if so, what are the contents of it? |
No, I don't have this file. _________________ Gentoo + Drupal = Forever ✪ Proud Gentoo user since 2010 |
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epsilon72 Guru
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:46 am Post subject: |
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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. |
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fakeCreazy n00b
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:30 am Post subject: |
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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 _________________ Gentoo + Drupal = Forever ✪ Proud Gentoo user since 2010 |
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epsilon72 Guru
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 3:00 am Post subject: |
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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:
4)What specific websites and/or web apps are you talking about? |
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fakeCreazy n00b
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:27 pm Post subject: Solved |
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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. _________________ Gentoo + Drupal = Forever ✪ Proud Gentoo user since 2010 |
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epsilon72 Guru
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 1:51 am Post subject: |
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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: Code: | CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--enable-speech-input" |
And that might make chromium launch that way without even needing to specify that option. |
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fakeCreazy n00b
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:10 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the hint. This is works too. This is even better than edit the menu launcher, like I did. _________________ Gentoo + Drupal = Forever ✪ Proud Gentoo user since 2010 |
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