GOOGLE DOCS: Voice Typing - not working

Issue:
google docs voice typing is not working - microphone access is displayed to work (animated icon on the tab) but audio is not accessed by the site (works in chrome with the below mentioned steps)

Steps to Reproduce:
1= disabling all shield settings for google docs,
2) accepted access to Microphone
3) and using https://docs.google.com/
4) opening a new document and activating:
5) Tools > Voice typing
6) clicking on the microphone -mic symbol on docs turns red (recording), animated icon in the tab shows active mic access but no audio is transcripted

Actual Result:


page stays empty. no error message etc.

Expected result:
smooth audio transcript for voice typing

Reproduces how often: 10 times, different computers, all latest brave and disabled shield.

Operating System and Brave Version: Mac OS 10.14.6 (18G95) - Version 0.68.132 Chromium: 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Hi @benjaminr,

Thanks for taking the time to write in. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. We have several open issues around this that the team is working to fix. If you’re interested in tracking some of them can be found here:


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