Voice to text

Groetg

Is it possible tot use voice tot text in GOS. I use openboard and was wondering if i could talk tot a signal discussion and signal is typing my voice tot text??

MetropleX

Groetg Colvdv the best voice to text solution I can recommend is to use GBoard in tandem with our sandboxed google play services, after downloading GBoard select the Faster Voice Typing option that will download a voice model to your phone for offline use, then you can revoked GBoards network permission for a fully offline dictation option.

Colvdv

I am also curious as to whether there is a good voice to text option, preferably one that works offline.

Colvdv

MetropleX Beautiful

eatinggrumble84

MetropleX

Is there any risk of data sharing to Google through mutual consent between Gboard and Google Play Services despite Gboard itself not having network access?

spiral

MetropleX any way to confirm that

MetropleX any way to confirm that the voice model has downloaded?

jamstock

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

MetropleX

eatinggrumble84 not that I can ascertain. After you revoke it and you try using any Google related services it informs you it can't contact their servers.

MetropleX

spiral yes revoke network and then tap the microphone and dictate something.

Snowmonk

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 🤷

johnsmith

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

johnsmith

It requires Google Services Framework and Google Play Services to be installed. Then it'll show the Faster typing option.

johnsmith

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.

Such2938

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?

MetropleX

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.

Smlvox

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

alci

There is a Foss stt keyboard that works quite well: you can fund it (code or apk) here: https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard/
It is based on vosk and provides stt intent.

BalooRJ

alci Thanks for linking this, it works quite well!

MetropleX

Such2938 did you install them before or after? If after uninstall GBoard and reinstall.,

Such2938

MetropleX installed them some time ago. Just installed Gboard to try this.

MetropleX

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.

fdubosc

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.