9 days later

MetropleX following switching on "faster voice typing," a few minutes was not long enough before denying network to Gboard, but overnight was. After clearing Gboard storage to zero, then activating Faster Voice Typing, i watched storage climb slowly to over 240mb. It seemed to level off but still didn't work without network. Presently it's 263mb and works, but that may include other assets 🤷

9 days later

Device: Pixel 6a

I downloaded Gboard via Aurora Store as this seems to be the best and only option for dictation.

Following the instructions above I attempted to enable "Faster Voice Typing", but the option is not present under

  • Settings>Apps>Gboard>VoiceTyping> (nothing present other than Voice Typing toggle)

Dictation does work, but only if Network permission is enable, which is opposite of our goal here. Kill Network, and no dictation.

I let this sit over night on Wifi to confirm things were fully DL'ed with no luck.

Any tips or do others lack the "Faster Voice Typing" option as well?

Thanks

    eatinggrumble84
    Thanks, failed to include in my original post.

    Currently Enabled: Google Play Service & GSF
    Not Installed: Google Play Store

    Reason for this configuration: Minimum requirements for MySudo to function 'properly'

    Looks like the next step would be to install Google Play Store, but I'll wait to see if anyone has any better advice before doing that.

      johnsmith

      @MetropleX you MUST install ALL 3 packages if you wish to receive support for issues with sandboxed play services. The only package that can be installed without the other two is GSF to help with GCam as an example which doesn't require all of them.

      Play Store IS NOT just a shop front, apps increasingly depend on Play Asset Delivery and Play Feature Delivery which require the official Play Store client instead of legacy OBBs which are deprecated and forbidden for new apps. Other Play Store services also require the official Play Store. Apps will increasingly depend on the Play Store for Asset/Feature delivery and other APIs.

        3 months later

        MetropleX

        MetropleX This is good to know. I was wondering why some apps were acting a little weird. I thought the play store wasn't necessary for apps to be fully functional

        eatinggrumble84 The option still won't appear for me. I have Google Services Framework and Google Play Services. GSF doesn't have any permissions at all though. Do I need to grant it any for this to work?

          5 days later

          MetropleX I have tried this but when I revoke network permission on Gboard I'm not able to use voice typing. I get an error message "can't connect to Google right now". Any ideas? Thanks

            Hi everyone,

            I'm currently having issues with the solution provided by @MetropleX. I've installed Gboard and checked the option Faster voice typing. I can see that data is downloaded as the User data goes up and flatlines at 228 MB. However, if I remove network permissions I just get the error that Google can't be contacted right now.

            This persists even after leaving permissions on for a couple days as suggested by @Snowmonk. User data does not go up any further than 228 MB so it seems everything is downloaded.

            Does anybody know what may be the cause? Are there other settings that may conflict with this feature?

            Framework, Play Store and Play services all installed, everything up to date.

            Many thanks.

              If you can't get the GBoard / Google Voice Services to work then I can suggest two other methods.

              First is to use Sayboard. For my use, it's fine. Not as accurate or fully featured as GBoard / Google Voice but good enough for the occasional voice transcription.

              https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard

              Second, you can also install Google Recorder (no need to also install any Google Play packages), revoke network access, record / transcribe in that app and then share or copy - paste the results of the transcription into your note taking, text messaging, etc. app of your choice. Ads an extra step but just as accurate as the GBoard / Google Voice setup.

              jamstock fdubosc it is possible that Google may have made changes when updating Play Services or GBoard.

              I will endeavour to test myself later but as I don't use GBoard and only tested this solution at the time to provide advice it would be profitable to have a regular user of the feature who is on the latest version of the OS, Play Services and GBoard to validate if this is indeed an issue from an update or is simply a configuration issue.

              I will respond later tonight when I am back from doing my site visits at work.

                MetropleX Thanks for your response. If it helps the diagnostic, I also tried the feature when I was out of cell signal/wifi and it did not work in this situation either.

                MetropleX Thanks. After playing around for a while I discovered that in my case Gboard voice typing with network access revoked only works with English (US) after it has downloaded over Wi-Fi. Other languages do not seem to be supported. The ones I tried were French and Thai.

                If anyone can get other languages working please let me know.

                For now if I want to use French or Thai I think I will have to temporarily connect to the network. Seems to be the only solution

                Just confirmed the @MetropleX process did work for me.
                English (US).

                It still works after uninstalling the 3 Google services too.