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Is there any way to use Assistant voice typing? i tried using but the option was greyed on the gboard app.

    If you enable network permissions temporarily for Gboard you can enable "Faster voice typing" which downloads an offline version which provides the ability to use it with network revoked (upon downloading - can take a while).

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      unwat Thanks! However, I turned this on (as well as network permissions for Gboard) and used voice typing for about 5 minutes; then I turned off network permissions and tried voice typing, but it just comes up with the error message "Can't contact Google at the moment". How long does it take to download the offline version and how do I know if it's been downloading?

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        It seems to be hit or miss for some people. Some get it to work, others don't. Maybe it only works on Pixel 6 / Pixel 7 or their pro versions? Check if it works with Airplane mode on. If it works, the language packs were downloaded.

        I did some digging in to this a while back and found that the offline speech pack was 25 mb at the time (October). Not sure if it's the same size now, but I'd imagine it's a similar size. My phone downloaded the file in 9 seconds. There's no loading bar or anything. GBoard just starts downloading immediately after you switch the feature on.

        I don't know which variants of English they support now, but the following were supported when I checked last: Australian English, Canadian English, British English, and American English. Maybe verify you have one of those Englishes selected under the languages option. If you speak a language other than English, I'm not sure which languages are supported.