I can not use the microphone on websites using chromium

Question

I have a problem with Ubuntu 18.04 and chromium for some time. It also happens with Mint 19. In all applications or websites where I need to use the microphone (and that I could use before) such as dictation.io, or voice to text, when I press the microphone button to capture the sound, he always tells me "there is no Internet connection". I have Connection. Permissions to use the microphone too. And the microphone works well, because I can record with it. I do not know what it can be, but any help will be appreciated, because I have searched and searched for the same problem and possible solutions and I have not found anything. Thank you all for everything

Solution 1

Install real Chrome instead of Chromium.

Solution 2

In recent versions of Ubuntu (19.10 and above, ref.), Chromium is installed in a snap. By default, snap isolation allows camera but not microphone.

You can change this graphically using similar to How do I give chromium permissions to read files of my /usr or /tmp folders? - Ask Ubuntu or via command line, ref. How can Snap permissions be viewed and modified? - Ask Ubuntu.

Command line access to graphical configuration:

sudo gnome-software

Full command line solution:

snap connections chromium  # to list existing permissions
sudo snap connect chromium:audio-record :audio-record  # to enable

Solution 3

Go to Ubuntu Software center and check Chromium permissions.

Currently it requires "Record Audio" and "Play and record sound" permissions for microphone in my Ubuntu 20.04 system.

Comments

[Xavier Rossich Prades]

I've tried with Firefox and it says: " So Thanks!rry, your browser does not support speech recognition :( Please open dictation.io inside Google Chrome on your Windows PC or Mac OS to continue using Speech Recognition! "

[gsb]

Check out onlinemictest.com/microphone-settings/ubuntu

[gsb]

Or maybe check out askubuntu.com/questions/801282/…

[Xavier Rossich Prades]

I'va already done and eveything is working until I arrive to "Step 10: Open a terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) and then run the gstreamer-properties". When I try it, gstreamer-ptoperties is not a command, and if I try to install it, it doesn't appears

[gsb]

Another thing you could try is real chrome not chromium Linux version at itsfoss.com/install-chrome-ubuntu

[Xavier Rossich Prades]

The solution that says to uninstall pulseaudio-module-jack and pavucontrol can'0t work, because I have never installed

[gsb]

sudo apt-get install libgstreamer1.0-0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-doc gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-x gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-qt5 gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio

[Xavier Rossich Prades]

I've installed all, but when I type in terminaql "$ gstreamer-properties gstreamer-properties: orden no encontrada" (command not found)

[gsb]

Did you try real chrome like I suggested

[Xavier Rossich Prades]

Yes! Thank youvery much. I've installed the real chrome and it works fine!! Thank you very much for your help

[gsb]

Why did you downvote my anawe

[Xavier Rossich Prades]

I have upvoted!!! I'lll try to change it

[Xavier Rossich Prades]

When I try to vote up it says "Thanks for the feedback! Votes cast by those with less than 15 reputation are recorded, but do not change the publicly displayed post score."

[SpeedCoder5]

On my Ubuntu machine this was under "Ubuntu Software Center" was under "Settings".