Sound From Google Translate Inaudible from WebBrowser Control

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When I create a Windows Form with a WebBrowser that has a URL of http://translate.google.com/ and run it, it seems to work fine, except for one detail.

When the item is translated, a little speaker icon shows up. Normally (in my real browsers), when I click that, the phrase plays through my speakers. However, in the WebBrowser, no sound plays. Any idea why that is not working or how I could get it to work?

Posted 24-Sep-11 16:11pm

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DaveAuld 25-Sep-11 4:51am

What are your real browsers? what are their Versions?

AspDotNetDev 26-Sep-11 20:02pm

IE9 and FF (not sure what the version is, but I can check if that is really important).

sai sagar 28-May-12 23:25pm

can you send that code for me.

AspDotNetDev 28-May-12 23:54pm

I never got it working.

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DaveAuld · Answer 1 · 2011-09-26T19:32:00

The FF version isn't important.

What is is whether the version of the webbrowser control which is effectively IE supports the HTML audio as you can see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa741313(v=VS.85).aspx the webbrowser control is a layer between the IE container app and the MSHTML engine. If the shdocvw.dll is a different version from what your Real Browser is seeing then that could be why there is a difference.

The current version on my machine for info is 6.1.7601.17514 (that's in System32) there are in fact 2 versions on the machine, but they are in the WinSXS caches/backup areas.

I have just tried on my machine vb.net winforms with webbrowser control and going to translate.google, and the little speaker works on .Net4 but does not on .Net3.5 despite the icon appearing, so there must be another wrapper around this in winforms which is breaking the functionality.

So the solution would be to switch to .net 4 :)

Member 4317199 (Paddy) · Answer 2 · 2011-10-29T05:31:00

I've still not managed to get this to work on my computer (XP) however a colleague I sent the application to running windows 7 had no problems. Two days ago. Yesterday, however, it did not. He says he has not run any windows updates (but having run scandisk because of confusion over error messages caused by him getting confused over what was a folder and what was inside a zip file!!) Does this make any sense??

He has just restored windows to the day before it worked and it still doesn't work!!!!

Yuksel YILDIRIM · Answer 3 · 2012-06-02T15:26:00

Solution 3

Empty Internet Explorer Cache (ie Temporary Internet Files folder) and then restart your application.. it works..

Posted 2-Jun-12 15:26pm

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robbo2003 · Answer 4 · 2012-11-26T00:51:00

I have found the file in the Temporary Internet Files folder that causes the problem. It is sound_player2.swf. If you delete this file the sound functions again but unfortunately not until you have closed and restarted the application or navigated the webbrowser to the URL again. If anyone knows why, I'd be glad to hear from them.

Sound From Google Translate Inaudible from WebBrowser Control

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