I can confirm the exact same behavior.
Google docs "Voice typing" constantly opens and closes the access to the
microphone while other websites (like `https://www.onlinemictest.com/`)
work normally.
When looking at the sound settings while activating voice typing, I can see
that the entry which flickr is called "Chromium input".
Note that activating the mic on `onlinemictest.com` create *two* consistent
entries: "Chromium" and "Chromium input".
The major difference I've with OP is that I'm having the problem with both:
* Chromium 84.0.4147.135 built on Ubuntu focal/20.04, running on Ubuntu
focal/20.04
from ungoogled-chromium (opensuse.org)
* Chromium 86.0.4240.75 snap
directly from Google using Ubuntu apt trust-proxy.
So I'd say snap is not at cause here ([r]which does not take anything to the
fact that misusing snap concept to provide Google's opaque-binaries instead of
a deb built from sourcecode is still insane[/r])
** Package changed: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) => chromium (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: chromium (Ubuntu)
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Title:
No voice typing with chromium snap at google docs
Status in chromium package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The voice typing feature of google docs is a online speech-to-text
converter. It can be found on any google docs document under
Toosl>Voice Typing and it only runs with Chrome or Chromium.
However while I can use this feature using the google chromium.deb
build. I cdoesn't work on the chromium snap. Instead the browser
constantly opens and closes the access to the microphone, resulting in
a flickering microphone icon in the top right of the screen.
The fact that this works with the .deb but not with the snap make me
think it is a snap related issue.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
$ apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
Version table:
1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64
Packages
80.0.3987.163-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
$ apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable:
Installed: 85.0.4183.102-1
Candidate: 85.0.4183.102-1
Version table:
*** 85.0.4183.102-1 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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