[snap] No voice typing at google docs

[Malte Deiseroth]

The voice typing feature of google docs is a online speech-to-text converter. It can be found on any google docs document under Toosl>Voice Typing and it only runs with Chrome or Chromium.

However while I can use this feature using the google chromium.deb build. I cdoesn't work on the chromium snap. Instead the browser constantly opens and closes the access to the microphone, resulting in a flickering microphone icon in the top right of the screen.

The fact that this works with the .deb but not with the snap make me think it is a snap related issue.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04

$ apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Version table:
     1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
     80.0.3987.163-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages

$ apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable:
  Installed: 85.0.4183.102-1
  Candidate: 85.0.4183.102-1
  Version table:
 *** 85.0.4183.102-1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Raphaël Droz (raphael-droz)]

I can confirm the exact same behavior.

Google docs "Voice typing" constantly opens and closes the access to the microphone while other websites (like `https://www.onlinemictest.com/`) work normally.

When looking at the sound settings while activating voice typing, I can see that the entry which flickr is called "Chromium input".
Note that activating the mic on `onlinemictest.com` create *two* consistent entries: "Chromium" and "Chromium input".

The major difference I've with OP is that I'm having the problem with both:
* Chromium 84.0.4147.135 built on Ubuntu focal/20.04, running on Ubuntu focal/20.04
from ungoogled-chromium (opensuse.org)
* Chromium 86.0.4240.75 snap
directly from Google using Ubuntu apt trust-proxy.

So I'd say snap is not at cause here ([r]which does not take anything to the fact that misusing snap concept to provide Google's opaque-binaries instead of a deb built from sourcecode is still insane[/r])