webkitSpeechRecognition disabled and no way of detection

[bsclifton]

Description

Carried over from brave/browser-laptop#15312

In our application, we use a Speech to Text Recognition. Depending on whether or not a service is available in a given browser, we'll go in the following order for the used service.

Web Speech API
Watson API
Google Speech
Web Speech API is available in Chrome, which makes it available in Brave. However, it is disabled in Brave from returning data results, and we have no way of telling which speech service to use.

We need a way of detecting whether the Browser is a Brave browser so we know to ignore the disabled API, or for the API to be removed since it is not functional.

Steps to Reproduce

        navigator.getUserMedia({ audio: true },
          (stream) => {
             let recognition = new Recognition()

             // API Options
             recognition.lang = 'en-US';
             recognition.maxAlternatives = 1
             recognition.interimResults = true;

             // Results callback
             recognition.onresult = (event) => console.log(event)

             recognition.start()
          }

What version of Brave are you using?

5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36

[bsclifton]

+1 from #3618

I found an extension I really need ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speech-recognition-anywhe/kdnnmhpmcakdilnofmllgcigkibjonof ) but looks like it's not going to work in Brave due to lack of support for speechSyntesis which seems to be supported by Chromium but not Brave.

Is that correct? If yes, why?
I truly believe speech-to-text API support is necessary in a modern browser, taking into account for example people like me with RSI / shoulder pain which make it difficult to type for long time.

You can see the answer by the extension's developer going to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speech-recognition-anywhe/kdnnmhpmcakdilnofmllgcigkibjonof -> Support tab. The question was asked with title Not working In Brave

Thanks in advance