Has Gboard’s voice typing officially lost the plot, or is it just me?
Hey everyone,
I swear I’m losing my mind here, but has anyone else noticed that Gboard's speech-to-text has taken an absolute nosedive recently? It used to be bloody brilliant—I could rattle off a whole paragraph and it would nail it. Lately, though, it feels like the software is actively taking the piss.
Here’s the nonsense it’s been pulling on a daily basis:
The AI "Corrections": I’ll dictate a sentence, watch it transcribe the words perfectly on screen, and then the split second I pause, the model decides to "re-think" the entire sentence. It replaces perfectly normal words with utter gibberish. It's like it has a panic attack and guesses a statistical average of what I might have meant instead of what I literally just said.
Aggressive Auto-Punctuation: It casually drops full stops, commas, and random capital letters right in the middle of a smooth sentence, completely butchering the flow.
The Ghost Mic: Half the time it completely ignores the first three or four words I say, no matter how long I awkwardly wait after hitting the mic. It’s like dealing with a dodgy bartender who only tunes in halfway through your order.
I’ve tried the usual fixes: clearing the app cache, diving into settings to toggle off 'Faster voice typing', and disabling auto-punctuation. It’s still a proper shambles. Whatever overzealous predictive update Google rolled out has made the feature borderline unusable.
Is anyone else dealing with this absolute headache, or is my phone just having a laugh? If someone has a solid workaround—or knows how to force it back to basic, literal acoustic transcription without the predictive guessing—I’d be forever grateful.
Cheers!