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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Google voice search - serious

    I have a new laptop with Windows 10 and for a week or so the Google voice search worked fine. Now all of a sudden it keeps coming up with "Didn't get that. Try again". But it is sporadic and there is no pattern to it failing. But for the most part it fails and is never consistent. Every once in a while it will recognize a word or to and open up the search but it is unreliable. For example if I say repeat "home home home" it may open the search on home. I can repeat that a second time and get "Didn't get that. Try again". I have tried:

    1. Reinstalling Google Chrome a couple times.
    2. Tested my microphone several times.
    3. Verified the language is English.
    4. Repeated the test sentence for setting up the microphone several times.

    I've been all over the internet and can't find any real help for it. That is strange in itself. For the most part almost anything that goes wrong on a computer you can find some help online. I consider myself competent in researching issues online and do it for a living. I can't track this down. I get hits on Google phones and a couple other apps but not Google Chrome on Windows 10.

    I'd appreciate some suggestions. I just love the Google voice search when it is working. I suspect it is my laptop but it is brand new and worked for the first couple weeks.
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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    I don't have many ideas but you could try testing your mic. If it's recording quality is low you'd get issues.
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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    For example if I say repeat "home home home" it may open the search on home. I can repeat that a second time and get "Didn't get that. Try again".
    Explain this better... Are you saying the words HOME HOME HOME

    all together as in one after the other? What exactly would you like Home Home Home to do?

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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve R Jones View Post
    Explain this better... Are you saying the words HOME HOME HOME

    all together as in one after the other? What exactly would you like Home Home Home to do?
    Just said it three times in a row trying to get it to hear. It takes a sound to activate the microphone icon on Google and then I was just trying different words like that testing it's recognition. Sometimes it would recognize them and sometimes not. Windows says the microphone is fine. I Googled trying to record my voice and playing it back to listen to it but haven't done that yet. The laptop is only a couple weeks old but I suppose the microphone could be bad.

    Does anyone know of something on the web that is voice sensitive I could try?
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    If you are on Windows 10, I think cortana is voice sensitive, you could try :

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...y-cortana-mode
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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    Quote Originally Posted by Delaney View Post
    If you are on Windows 10, I think cortana is voice sensitive, you could try :

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...y-cortana-mode
    Very good suggestion! Cortana can hear me clearly. I've already reinstalled Google a few times. I'm not sure what to do now. I never used Cortana before; I think I'll try it out a bit.
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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    As I mentioned, Cortana can hear me clearly. l'm wondering if Google microphone search has a bug. Is there someone on this thread that could test it?
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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    I just tested it for the first time... Worked like a charm.

    I HAD to click on the Google microphone to get it to display "Speak Now"

    I said HOME one time and it freaked me out real well by telling me my home address.

    I then said Home Depot and it showed and said all sorts of things about HD.


    EDIT: Google Chrome is up to date
    Version 83.0.4103.116 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve R Jones View Post
    I just tested it for the first time... Worked like a charm.

    I HAD to click on the Google microphone to get it to display "Speak Now"

    I said HOME one time and it freaked me out real well by telling me my home address.

    I then said Home Depot and it showed and said all sorts of things about HD.


    EDIT: Google Chrome is up to date
    Version 83.0.4103.116 (Official Build) (64-bit)
    Its my favorite search engine. I reinstalled it, said William Shakespeare, got lots of hits, closed it, said it again, and it failed. Failed every time after that. Strange...
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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    I just said William Shakespeare..... The Google lady voice read me off some facts after showing me stuff to click on.

    I said William Shakespeare again and all of the above repeated.

    Have you tried an external microphone and or tried a different person on your end to try your built in one?

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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve R Jones View Post
    I just said William Shakespeare..... The Google lady voice read me off some facts after showing me stuff to click on.

    I said William Shakespeare again and all of the above repeated.

    Have you tried an external microphone and or tried a different person on your end to try your built in one?
    I'm confident about my microphone from all the testing I did with Cortana. I'm stumped though.
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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    BUT....if another person can use the same microphone with Google you'd have more information than you have now. Think Apple to Apple comparison.

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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    Never even paid attention to the mic in the Chrome search. But I did try it and had no problems.

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    Re: Google voice search - serious

    It just started working again...

    There was nothing I did in particular. I bought a $2.99 app that was supposed to make Cortana, which can hear me with no problem, use Google but it keeps using Bing. I could get my money back but I'm not going to bother. The next thing I was going to try was to see if a friend's voice could be heard as suggested.

    Thanks to everyone that tried to help!
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