Can also confirm works with English (US), issue seems to only concern other keyboards. Have tried English (UK), French, and Russian.

Yeah something I should get used to asking when this is discussed is the language being used.

Our new all-neural, on-device Gboard speech recognizer is initially being launched to all Pixel phones in American English only. Given the trends in the industry, with the convergence of specialized hardware and algorithmic improvements, we are hopeful that the techniques presented here can soon be adopted in more languages and across broader domains of application.

Source: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-speech.html

@MetropleX I take it back, English (US) no longer working. Issue same as before. Left network permissions on for two days just in case, deleted user data to start again. Returns issue "Can't reach Google right now".

I have literally this very minute logged into my Play Services secondary user.
Ensured my Play Services were updated to the latest Alpha release.
Downloaded GBoard and left network/sensors enabled for the setup.
Went to advanced and disabled all options.
Tapped Voice Typing and selected the Faster Voice Typing toggle to on.
Left the download on a 120mbps line over wifi to complete for 3 minutes.
Returned to the 'App Info' pane and disabled network.
Opened my launcher search and tapped the mic.
Said "This is a test" and the text appeared.

Also note I did not change my language locale from English (UK) or any other settings so it appears that works as well as English (US)

@MetropleX Okay, tried again from a fresh install and followed everything step-by-step as described above and still continued to encounter the same issue with English (US) and (UK).
In the end what fixed it was disabling "Multilingual typing" found in Gboard settings > Languages. I think this feature allows you to use autocorrect while typing a different language than the one of the keyboard, perhaps it creates some sort of dependency between the different languages installed and prevents offline voice typing from working correctly if the second language isn't also available offline (in this case French). Option might not appear if you only have one language installed.

    fdubosc thanks for that, every little helps and working through this together has added a troubleshooting point that can be advised to help others AND you got it working too, win win.

    Thanks for coming back and letting us know, many wouldn't. Appreciate your community spirit.

    Hi, I had this problem earlier today. I will give you my quick run through. Obviously you need to have sandboxed GPS installed. I installed GBoard from the Play Store.

    1. You need to have Google Speech Services Installed. I don't actually know how to do this but I did it by installing the Recorder app and then following the prompts that appear on the transcription tab after you start recording. Do this a few times until you start to see speech appear in the transcription section.

    2. Go into Settings --> System --> Languages and input --> Voice input and select Speech Services by Google.

    3. Go back 1 menu and select the settings gear icon --> Add a language --> English (or your preferred language, obvi)

    4. Go into the GBoard app, select voice typing --> faster voice typing

    5. After all of this, you (might) need to uninstall and reinstall the GBoard app and then double-check the settings above.

    That's what worked for me, cheers.

      Hy
      Sayboard app work very well for me on pixel6 without any Google services. Just active network to download language package and revoked after. You can ajust some préférences in aosp keyboard to

      Sayboard and openboard is perfect. Unactived aosp board

      12 days later

      Lesney You need to have Google Speech Services Installed. I don't actually know how to do this but I did it by installing the Recorder app and then following the prompts that appear on the transcription tab after you start recording. Do this a few times until you start to see speech appear in the transcription section.

      Go into Settings --> System --> Languages and input --> Voice input and select Speech Services by Google.

      Go back 1 menu and select the settings gear icon --> Add a language --> English (or your preferred language, obvi)

      Go into the GBoard app, select voice typing --> faster voice typing

      After all of this, you (might) need to uninstall and reinstall the GBoard app and then double-check the settings above.

      Unnecessary. I do not have the recorder app or speech services they are not required.

      • SFTP replied to this.

        MetropleX

        Unfortunately the offline voice to text with interpunction (.,!?;) is not working on Gboard on other languages than english. (Even if you install all apps from google)
        On googles recorder app it does with the speech services.

        Is it allowed to do a bounty in the forums to find a solution?
        I am missing one of the best features of Android.

          SFTP On googles recorder app it does with the speech services.

          Understood, however I want/need it to be known that people can utilise it for the standard capability with network revoked. It is understood in this thread the languages it is used for.

          Can do the same with speech services and recorder, with both having network revoked so it can be offered as a solution for those with languages not directly supported by GBoards offline dictation? If not it ideally needs to be explicitly stated.

          SFTP Is it allowed to do a bounty in the forums to find a solution?

          The project does not do paid support, as an open source project it would be ideal to find someone, be that yourself or another developer, who could contribute and maintain the feature or find a third party keyboard project that would/could integrate your requirements.

            MetropleX find someone, be that yourself or another developer, who could contribute and maintain the feature

            Has the GrapheneOS project team accepted any outside contributions before?

              Graphite of course the project has had contributors outside the core team.

              As an example of a project that has been considered and continues to be of interest, check out Florisboard. This is a permissively licensed project, which has had contributions the other way from GrapheneOS devs with the view to integrate it as an AOSP Keyboard replacement when complete.

              Lead Devs position:

              [...] given up on anything but permissive licenses and will primarily support and contribute to projects with permissive licenses.

              Bad actors violate the licenses anyway and it gets in the way of using it via license incompatibilities and other painful restrictions.

              Any permissively licensed project can't take GPL code because it would change their overall license to a restrictive one.

              GrapheneOS has a strict policy against integrating GPLv3 code because it prevents building things we want people to be able to build with our software.

              @"MetropleX"#

              So they haven't accepted any outside contributions to the core GrapheneOS project? I'm not asking about integrating other separate projects like camera or keyboard. But like feature requests and UI/UX improvements. I can't find any PRs from outside the core dev team.

                Graphite

                If someone wants to contribute to GrapheneOS, they need to start small and prove to the GrapheneOS team that they're willing to maintain their own code/features before they'd be trusted to be making more invasive changes. I've seen the lead dev suggest newcomers contribute to different apps, rather than core Android stuff.

                It's not that contributions are unwelcome, it's that there just aren't that many people who are contributing.

                Check out the closed pull requests for the messaging app. I don't recognize some of those contributors.

                MetropleX

                MetropleX Can do the same with speech services and recorder, with both having network revoked so it can be offered as a solution for those with languages not directly supported by GBoards offline dictation? If not it ideally needs to be explicitly stated.

                I understood this as a question, right?

                1. Yes the recorder and speech service work both "offline" and on voice dictates the recorder does set the punctuation.
                2. The speech service itself, when used as an (keyboard) input method, does not do the punctuation.
                3. Gboard in "offline" state, does start the speech service when you push the microphone button.
                4. In the Gboard settings the option for automatic punctuation is greyed out. Even if you install Google assistant .
                5. Copying text from the recorder into the target app is a real pain. While dictating you can't copy the text. First you need to save, then reopen the dictate, go to transcript and copy the text.

                Hi all, I have faster voice typing enabled and Gboard network permissions revoked. Voice transcription works when airplane mode is enabled and it just says initializing when disabled. It keeps working if I disable airplane mode mid transctription. I installed it through play store. Network permission for play services and play store are off. Any ideas? Thank you.

                What is the real liklihood risk to the gboard key logging everything and sending it to google through mutual consent, even when network permissions for the gboard are revoked.

                Do many graphene owners use gboard with network turned off
                Also, it becomes the default keyboard to enter your password on reboot

                  L8437 technically they could, tho I have not seen or heard any