Environment:

- macOS

- MoltClaw version: v2026.4.12-mc.6

- Surface: AskClaw composer

Findings:

- Brave Browser: Voice input fails immediately with "Voice input failed. Please try again or type your message." error. Microphone permissions confirmed enabled at both browser and OS level. I did a hard reset of the staging environment but the issue persists.

- Google Chrome — Voice input works correctly. Speech transcribes cleanly into the composer.

Root Cause:

Brave's privacy protections block the Web Speech API even when microphone permissions are granted. This is consistent with Brave's default behavior of restricting browser-level speech recognition APIs.

Troubleshooting Performed:

- Verified mic enabled at macOS system level

- Verified mic enabled in Brave site settings

- Hard reset the staging environment to confirm the update was live

- Switched to Chrome and the voice input confirmed working

Recommendation:

Consider adding Brave to the list of unsupported browsers in the voice input error message so users get a specific explanation rather than a generic failure notice.

Current error handling is otherwise working correctly per the update.

This is a browser compatibility note rather than a platform bug. Voice feature itself is confirmed working in Chrome. Great job! 😎