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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.

@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.

Hoping Opera already implements what's needed and it's just a simple bug Opera's implementation.

So, there's still a chance.

Don't know why, seems like a strange business decision. This must be technology-related imperative.

See: https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/204642264?input_string=duoling+speaking+exercises+aren't+working+on+manh+browsers+on+windows

Clicking the mic icon on the page in Opera does nothing. No errors in console or anything. Masking as Chrome doesn't help. Microphone is availabe in settings (3 different choices for the same microphone, tried them all with a restart). But, nothing helps.

Tried in Chrome with the same setup. Clicking the mic icon on the page pops up the notifcation asking if I want to allow access to the microphone. Allowing completes (as in, successfully adds the site as an exception), but I get a message from the site saying there's a problem accessing the microphone and it might be due to a Chrome bug. I fixed that by enabling the microphone in "start -> settings -> privacy -> microphone". That setting is only supposed to affect apps, but it was needed for Chrome. It didn't help with Opera as the button on the page still does nothing.

Tried in Firefox and completed a zillion exercises multiple times and I never got a page asking me to speak something. So, I couldn't test there. Same with Edge. But, for both of those, that was before I enabled the microphone in the Windows app settings. It was already enabled in the sound control panel. I'll have to try again later with the app setting enabled too. Edit. Still never get a microphone page in Firefox and Edge.

For Opera, I also manually added:

"https://www.duolingo.com:443,*" : {
   "last_modified" : "13180163291935854",
   "setting" : 1
}

to profile/content_settings/exceptions/media_stream_mic in the Preferences file so that the site shows up as an exception in Opera. But, that didn't help. Clicking the mic button on the page still does nothing.

Saving the page with the mic option as webpage complete or an mhtml file doesn't produce a working page to test with.

I'll try more things later. At least I got it to work in Chrome.

@sullemulle said in Duolingo doesn't work.:

May I ask, why do you need one? Would you be interested in technical side of this phenomenon?

Yes. Was going to test it to see if I can reproduce the issue and see if I can workaround it.

That would be super. Sadly it's not within the realm of my possibilities to provide you a direct link to a suitable exercise.

May I ask, why do you need one? Would you be interested in technical side of this phenomenon?

Yes. Was going to test it to see if I can reproduce the issue and see if I can workaround it.

May I ask, why do you need one? Would you be interested in technical side of this phenomenon?

In fact, with Vivaldi Duolingo does not even give speaking exercises, since the browser apparently can't even see or understand my audio input devices, and thus the website thinks I have none. So no luck there.

I've already switched back to using mainly Chrome, since everything works smoothly there. It's a horrible memory hog though.

If i may recommend another browser to try instead? I am using Vivaldi Browser for the past year now and i am very much pleased with it and use it alongside Opera. It is extremly customizable, has loads of implented features (tab stacking, web panel, split window for example), extensions are downloaded directly from ChromeStore.
Back then when Opera was sold, half of Opera Staff quit and left and they started building Vivaldi Browser.
They are constantly updating it. If you try it, i'd like to recommend a few extensions to use it with:
Bookmark Sidebar is a must, since the bookmarks are not perfected yet chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-sidebar/jdbnofccmhefkmjbkkdkfiicjkgofkdh/reviews

No implemented VPN, this one is free, unlimited and fast:
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/free-vpnpro-free-unlimite/aikkpomhgnaciipbediihdakbbbmdfil/reviews?hl=en-US

No implemented AdBlock (Ublock is what i use)

No implemented mining block (CryptoStop is what i use)

https://vivaldi.com/blog/how-to-switch-to-vivaldi/

I have no other solution to offer for this.

Have you checked in opera settings your default microphone settings and allowed sites to access your microphone?

I am also using this opera addon to allow websites to play videos/allow mic access and such.

I seem to be unable to do speaking exercises. Starting voice recognition on Duolingo by clicking on microphone symbol on speaking exercise does nothing.

My Opera version info:
Version: 55.0.2994.37 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 10 64-bit

And here's a collection of another reports regarding this issue, one dating back two years:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/15200/duolingo-microphone-input-not-working (2 years ago)
https://forums.opera.com/topic/27849/el-micrófono-de-duolingo-no-funciona (in Spanish)
https://forums.opera.com/topic/26917/micro-non-fonctionnel-sous-opera (in French)

There you can read what doesn't work. Since it works for you, I would very much want to solve this.