Voice control

Voice control

Beranda listens with the microphone of the device that shows it (tablet or computer), never the Pi's.

1. Settings page, box 11 · Voice control: tick Show the microphone button, Save.
2. Open Beranda in Google Chrome. Edge offers speech recognition but its service fails ("network"); Firefox and Safari do not offer it to web pages.
3. Use the secure address: https:// instead of http://, same address and port. The first time, accept the "not private" warning (Advanced → Continue): the certificate is made by Beranda.
4. Tap the round microphone, allow it, speak: "what's the weather", "play France Inter", "next station"...

The other way round step 3: a one-time Chrome setting, chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure with Beranda's http:// address.

When it does not work

In the same browser, settings page → Voice control → Test the microphone on this device.

Message / code	Meaning	What to do
insecure	the page is http	open it with https://
not-allowed	microphone blocked	address bar icon → Microphone → Allow; check the system's privacy settings
audio-capture	no microphone	plug one in (headset, webcam)
network	the browser's speech service is unreachable	use Google Chrome; check the internet connection
unsupported	the browser cannot listen	use Google Chrome

The screen also reports its result to the Pi: it shows in the diagnostic file.

Privacy: Chrome sends the sound to Google to turn it into text; Beranda only gets the text and keeps nothing. Full guide: docs/VOICE.md.