speak the words

For years Chrome has been the browser we have relied upon for the "Speak The Words" content type.
Since Chrome 139 (August 2025), however, Chrome has been moving towards on-device speech recognition. In the latest release, Chrome 160, even the Web Speech API demo at https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html is no longer working on my Windows 10 laptop. When pressing the microphone button on the page, it appears to be listening but does not process any microphone input.

Hi,

i'm using speak the words set in Hebrew in WP. 
I'm very impressed that it works well on chrome on my desktop, but in chorme mobile it recoginze my speech as it was English.

are you familiar with this? is there anything users should do with their mobile so the speech will be recognized in the wanted langauge? 
(thanks in advance)

 

Hi,

We have recently noticed a bug in Speak the Words Set where the audio isn't processed for one-syllable words in Korean. It's always "listening", and only shows the result if we speak more than one syllable.

Another - unrelated - problem we are having is, depending on the browser and OS language settings, the input language is ignored and H5P tries to listen to the speech in English. Lots of our users have reported the same problem, and this one has been happening for over a year now with no solution.