Voice input does not work and icon doesn't appear

[fallsdevil]

Describe the bug

To Reproduce
By activating "voice input" in the toolbar, the icon does not appear, even activating in the "fixed" option. Strangely the icon appears sometimes, but by clicking on it, nothing happens. I tested using the Gboard and funned correctly, and already used the HeliBoard on another Samsung A01 Core device, Android 10 GO Edition and worked. But in mine, it is like this, I tried to update Google's voice recognition and move the system settings and found nothing relevant.

Expected behavior
that some permission pop-up pars appear to use the microphone for this function to work. I entered the app information and looked at the permissions, but I didn't have that voice permission.

Screenshots

App version
2.3

Device:

• Model: Samsung Galaxy A10s
• OS: Android 11

[yaomtc]

I'm on GrapheneOS (Android 15) and the default AOSP keyboard has a mic button present but it doesn't work for me. On Heliboard, same issue as yours, mic button won't show up. My voice input app is set to Dicio. I don't see any other options on F-Droid.

[Helium314]

that some permission pop-up pars appear to use the microphone for this function to work

It does not work that way. Like AOSP Keyboard, HeliBoard voice input button switches to a "shortcutInputMethod" as Android calls it. The button only appears if getShortcutInputMethodsAndSubtypes actually returns any subtypes.
So if you do not have any voice input methods (e.g. Sayboard) installed, the button will not show up.

My voice input app is set to Dicio.

If you have a voice input method installed and the button still does not show up, then I don't know what is wrong. I remember that was an issue with GrapheneOS, but it was fixed by a contributor. Maybe with Android 15 it's showing up again?

[soupslurpr]

I'm on GrapheneOS (Android 15) and the default AOSP keyboard has a mic button present but it doesn't work for me. On Heliboard, same issue as yours, mic button won't show up. My voice input app is set to Dicio. I don't see any other options on F-Droid.

This isn't a GrapheneOS issue at all. Dicio doesn't have a voice input keyboard option. Both AOSP keyboard and Heliboard just switch to an enabled voice input keyboard if it exists. You need to enable it from Settings > System > Keyboard > On-screen keyboard.

You can download a voice input keyboard and then it should work. You can try mine called Transcribro https://github.com/soupslurpr/Transcribro or Sayboard if you prefer https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard.

[yaomtc]

Ah, I see. Seems odd that Dicio is an option in Languages>Voice input despite needing to open the app to use that "text to speech popup" that apparently can't be triggered outside the app. I'll give your app a try.

[soupslurpr]

Languages > Voice input is a separate thing. It's a user-preferred app which other apps can use for speech to text. There's no UI provided by the voice input app; it needs to be provided as appropriate by the app that's calling it.

Whereas what AOSP keyboard and Heliboard are asking for is just switching to a voice input keyboard if the user has one enabled, they don't have control over it at all.

[yaomtc]

Thank you for explaining!