Duolingo doesn't work.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@burnout426 Tested Opera Developer too. Same issue with the button.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
Well well, go figure... Duolingo itself states that speaking exercises work only on Google Chrome.
Don't know why, seems like a strange business decision. This must be technology-related imperative.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@sullemulle I saw that but was hoping by "Chrome" they meant Chrome and other Chromium browsers (like Opera and Vivaldi). But, it's definitely possible that Opera doesn't implement some API that Chrome does. If that's the case, it's something Opera should implement. I'm not really sure if it's something extra that Chrome implements that's not in base Chromium.
Hoping Opera already implements what's needed and it's just a simple bug Opera's implementation.
So, there's still a chance.
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A Former User last edited by
@burnout426 Curiously Duolingo works perfectly with Chromium on Debian.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@sullemulle Does Opera on Linux behave any differently compared to Windows?
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A Former User last edited by
@sullemulle Thanks, this is answer for all my questions. It is sad that duolingo only works good in Chrome
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A Former User last edited by
@xillegas said in Duolingo doesn't work.:
@sullemulle Thanks, this is answer for all my questions. It is sad that duolingo only works good in Chrome
No prob, I'm glad this discussion is helpful to you.
@burnout426 said in Duolingo doesn't work.:
@sullemulle Does Opera on Linux behave any differently compared to Windows?
I'll check it out and get back to you when it's done.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
This issue has been analyzed by Opera. Duolingo uses the Web Speech API to handle microphone input. The speech-to-text engine in the Chromium source code for the Web Speech API uses a specific service on Google's servers. However, API access to the service is limited to official Chrome builds. Other builds of Chromium aren't allowed to have the access keys to use the service, which is why it breaks in Opera. To make this work, Opera would have to write their own engine that uses a different speech-to-text service (that they write and provide themselves, or one from another company that they pay to use). Or, Duolingo would have to use a different method to analyze the speech to convert it to text.
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A Former User last edited by
@burnout426 said in Duolingo doesn't work.:
This issue has been analyzed by Opera. ---
Interesting news. Let's see if either one of those will work on the issue. Meanwhile, it seems we're limited to using Duolingo on Chrome or Chromium.
Thanks for the head up! This case seems to be closed until we have either of the solutions you outlined.
