Fact · Speech recognition
A developer's January 2019 issue in Brave's GitHub tracker says the Web Speech API is disabled in Brave from returning results, so an app cannot tell which speech service to use.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“However, it is disabled in Brave from returning data results, and we have no way of telling which speech service to use.”
webkitSpeechRecognition disabled and no way of detection (issue #2802, brave/brave-browser), bsclifton, GitHub, Brave browser issue tracker, 2019, Issue body.
Open the original- What it measures
- The developer's app tried the Web Speech API first, then fell back to other services. In Brave the first service returned nothing, and the app had no way to tell that the API was disabled.
- What it does not show
- This is one developer's report from 2019, on a Brave build from that period. It is not a statement from Brave. Test the current release before you design around it.