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hanugm
Asked: 2018-09-12 07:32:56 +0800 CST

Why does Speech to text websites are not working in my Ubuntu 18.04 laptop?

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When I select to search by voice of Google search, it is saying No Internet Connection as shown below.

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Along with Google voice search, dictation, voice notebook, Speech notes, Google voice to text, all websites I tried so far for the purpose of speech to text conversion are not working. Since a week I found no website that can convert my speech to text.

I installed SpeechNotes and several other apps on my Android mobile phone for speech to text conversion, all are working properly either with or without proxy.

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 laptop. It is mandatory to use a proxy in my laptop. But I did check with both proxy and without a proxy, not working in both cases. My mic is working properly. I checked through this site, both with and without a proxy.

By mic test (with and without proxy), we can say that there is no issue with mic and browser, (as well as proxy). Since I can use speech to text in my Android mobile either with or without proxy, we can say that there is no issue with proxy. So, there can be only issue with using speech to text websites in Ubuntu.

What have do to resolve the issue?

sound microphone 18.04

1 Answers

  1. a) Make sure you are using Google Chrome

    b) Speaking near the mic and loud enough

    c) Turned on the mic in settings.

    Juste tested in Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS with Google Chrome, and it works. The following article is updated with troubleshooting.

    https://www.debugpoint.com/2018/07/speech-recognition-to-text-in-linux-ubuntu-using-google-docs/

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