Safari 15.0 doesn't play audio

Go the Safari on top left, then click preferences and then go to the end and click Advanced Tab, then check the box next to " Show Develop menu in menu bar". Now close preferences

Now Develop menu will show on the menus on top of safari click it and then go " Experimental Features" then uncheck " GPU process: Media"

now it is important to close safari by Quitting it from Safari menu then click "Quit Safari"

Now open Safari again and it should work now

I have the same problem and I cannot fix it even talking to the Support Team on Chat. I opened Google Chrome on my iMac and Google Translate works. I strongly suspect it is a problem with Safari on Mac OS Catalina because there has been no such problem while using Mojave.

The issue is likely related to a bug within the software combination as this issue is not present with Safari 15.0 on macOS Big Sur 11.6. My best advice would just be to wait it out and temporarily use another browser until Safari 15.0.1 for macOS Catalina is released to assist with the issue.

I have the same problem on my iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) with the latest Catalina OS 10.15.7. All my settings in Safari preferences are set correctly, still no sound in Google Translate. Refreshing the page does nothing. I switched to Chrome which works perfectly. It is disappointing that Apple releases software updates without testing prior to release. I also have a MacBook with the Big Sur OS v. 11.6 and the sound does work with Google Translate.

Since I was upgraded safari 15.0 , suffer the same issue , it can't play audio on google translate

My MacBook Pro specification is 2013 early retina 13 inch display monitor

OS is laster Catalina 10.15.7

I have the same problem too. I have a late 2016 MaBook Pro running macOS Monterey 12.0.1 and Safari 15.1 (17612.2.9.1.20). When I open Google Translate, clicking on the speaker icon works one or two times, to hear the pronunciation, then the third time it cuts out, and no longer produces any sound. The last time I tried it, it cut out in the middle of a sentence. I have to close/re-open Google Translate, the it works one or two times again, then cuts out again. very frustrating. As previous people have said, the speaker icon works fine when using Google Translate with the Chrome browser. This is a problem with the Safari browser, and has not been fixed in the last few updates.

my problem was fixed by.... playing a YouTube video.. what a surprise...

lucky I didn't follow a troublesome procedure like cleaning the cache or something.. maybe I should for a while..I don't know. anyhow. to once again hear the sound from google translate is so good. better than mechanical sound from DeepL. But then DeepL seems doing a better job at translating a page. still not perfect. but good for AI intelligence , anyways

Thanks for the reply. However, as of mid-December 2021, it seems to be working properly. Looks like Google fixed whatever the problem was, because now the audio on Google Translate works properly using the Safari browser and using the Google Chrome browser.

I discovered something - at least as it relates to Goggle Translate. I had a "pinned" tab on Safari for Google translate and when accessing it, I received the message about "Can't playback audio" however when I went to a clean tab and accessed Google Translate the audio was fine. So at least in my case the problem seems related to a "pinned" tab!

uncheck from Safari mainmenu:

[Develop] -> [Experimental Features] -> [GPU Process: Media] 

I’m having the exact same problem.

I have the same issue.

I have the same issue.

I'm using an iMac Catalina w/ Safari Version 15.0 (15612.1.29.41.4, 15612)

I have the exact same problem and it started to become tedious.. I hope this issue will be fixed soon.