Google does this for a long time already.
You may want to use "Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans"[1], which uses the audio option to solve the CAPTCHA.
There are even several speech recognition methods, like wit.ai, which is basically from Facebook:
$ whois wit.ai | grep "Name Server"
Name Server: b.ns.facebook.com
Name Server: a.ns.facebook.com
Name Server: c.ns.facebook.com
Name Server: d.ns.facebook.com
[1] https://github.com/dessant/buster
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Captcha solver extension for humans, available for Chrome, Edge and Firefox
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Captcha solver extension for humans, available for Chrome, Edge and Firefox
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The captcha buster extension[^0] along with the service on you computer to move the mouse for you works very very well. It uses google’s TTS (afaik) to transcribe the audio…
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Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans
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Search for places, people, duplicates, and more.
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Description
Buster is a browser extension which helps you to solve difficult CAPTCHAs
by completing reCAPTCHA audio challenges using speech recognition.
Challenges are solved by clicking on the extension button at the bottom
of the reCAPTCHA widget.
Obviously, this blue part here is the land.
— Byron "Buster" Bluth, reading a map
Motivation
reCAPTCHA challenges remain a considerable burden on the web,
delaying and often blocking our access to services and information
depending on our physical and cognitive abilities, our social
and cultural background, and the devices or networks we connect from.
The difficulty of CAPTCHA challenges can be so out of balance,
that sometimes they seem friendlier to bots than they are to humans.
The goal of this project is to improve our user experience on the web,
by giving us easy access to solutions utilized by automated systems.
Client App
The client app enables you to simulate user interactions and improves
the success rate of the extension. Follow the instructions
from the extension's options to download and install the client app
on Windows, Linux and macOS, or get the app
from this repository.
Screenshots
License
Copyright (c) 2018-2026 Armin Sebastian
This software is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.
See the LICENSE file for further information.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
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154 points · Open discussionBuster: Captcha Solver for Humans
1 points · Open discussionI use "AI" [0] to automate the audio challenge. Far easier than for me to try and figure that shit out.
[0]: https://github.com/dessant/buster
In Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ReCAPTCHAv (2023)The captcha buster extension[^0] along with the service on you computer to move the mouse for you works very very well. It uses google’s TTS (afaik) to transcribe the audio captcha. It’s google verifying another google service works well. I find it very satisfying to not provide my labor to train googles computer vision corpus but instead have the snake bite it’s own tail.
Anyway, I highly recommend buster, I barely notice captchas anymore with it.
[^0]: https://github.com/dessant/buster
In AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAsWhich is why I'm always using buster[1] when facing captchas.
https://github.com/dessant/buster/
In AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAsreCAPTCHA allows for audio challenges as accessibility fallback. And this has been a loophole for a long time to automatically solve them via google's own speech-to-text API https://github.com/dessant/buster
In Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning (2019)What extensions are you looking at? I'm not sure how you missed the popular ones like Buster[1], NopeCHA[2] or 2Captcha Solver[3].
[1] https://github.com/dessant/buster
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noptcha/
[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2captcha-solv...
In Ask HN: Are there any working ReCAPTCHA bypass plugins for Firefox?https://github.com/dessant/buster/
buster is a technically legal software designed to show how easy it is to bypass google recaptcha.... if this continues to work, why not a third party SAAS that allows the same thing via an api?
In Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?ill add a couple:
yet another speed dial: https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial
buster captcha solver: https://github.com/dessant/buster
In My essential Firefox fixes in 2022You can go to https://www.twilio.com/login/password and enter a fake email address and repeated fake passwords. Or one of the addresses listed here: https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/178 Though I got pretty easy ones trying it.
In Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dicesYou can subscribe here for whenever it happens: https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/320
In Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dicesIt's Arkose Labs (also used by Roblox, GitHub, Dropbox, Twitch, and more). There's some more links here: https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/178 (Buster is a browser extension for automated captcha solving). You can subscribe here https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/320
Their audio captcha (no longer available?) involved listening to 3 MIDI tunes and picking "the sad one".
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