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You need to click the little microphone icon - sorry if you've already tried this.

Interesting... no Mic icon here. Just a text box centered in the slide. Both in Chrome 7.0.517.44 and Safari 5.0.2. The mystery deepens.

Edit: Aha! Update to 8.0.552 and presto... Mic icon. Very slick.

Edit again: "Hello" ---> Lowes. "Hello Mr. Webpage" ---> homeless services "This is a test" ---> test

Probably a crappy notebook mic to blame. Ah well. Recognition on my Nexus One is quite solid so I can't blame Google's algorithms.

Where does this icon appear? (It's not obvious in the latest Chrome or Safari on MacOS.)

The icon appears in the right of the input box. Appears perfectly on Chrome 8.0.552.215 which my Mac shows is up-to-date.

Thanks, restarting Chrome got me to that version, and then the icon appeared.

(It seems this feature must have just been pushed; it was less than a week ago when I last restarted.)