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I wonder which one of those requirements (listen from the mic and showing 5 questions) is impossible to do with other browsers than Chrome...
by kuu 4y ago
I wonder which one of those requirements (listen from the mic and showing 5 questions) is impossible to do with other browsers than Chrome...
- ziml77 4y agoAppears to be because Firefox doesn't support the SpeechRecognition API.
- WorldMaker 4y agoFirefox supports it behind a feature flag in about:config until the user permissions and protections have been sorted out by standards bodies. https://caniuse.com/?search=speech%20recognition https://caniuse.com/?search=speech%20recognition
- croisillon 4y agothe ad tracking requirement I guess
- dx034 4y agoOr, and I find that more likely, they just didn't see the point to spend resources supporting other browsers if they don't have to. In the end, if you want to work at Google, they can probably expect you to use their products.
- IceDane 4y agoOkay. But there is a 90% chance that nothing on that page requires anything chrome-specific, and even if it did, it would probably be a line of code or two to make it degrade gracefully in firefox. It was undoubtedly more work to implement "Sorry, your browser isn't supported" with user agent checking and whatnot than it would have been to support firefox, because in all likelihood, that site would Just Work without any real modifications(modulo styling).
- black_puppydog 4y agoGiven that the AI part of this will happen on server: nothing. Source: working on a transcription service that has, among others, a webapp that runs fine on any browser.
- doctor_eval 4y agoWorks on safari for iPad. Well, I didn’t give it mic access or answer any questions, but it asked them.