u/nedthehead

▲ 5 r/gboard

Voice Input behaviour changed?

This has happened on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE, but not on my Moto G Stylus 2025.

The way the keyaboard used to work is that you'd select a text field, hit the microphone icon, the device would beep, and then you can start speaking and it would enter text directly into the text field.

Now, when you click the microphone button, it closes the keyboard and opens a spearate... app? Window? Overlay thing at the bottom of the screen that is full of wasted space. It has a big mic button, a back button, and a settings button.

So now for voice input, I have to click into a text field, the keyboard will open, click the mic button for voice input, click the OTHER mic button in the new window that opens, speak my message, hit the back button to get back to the regular keyboard, and then press enter to send my message.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way to roll this back? Typing by hand on a tablet is so frustrating and I'm 100% down to switch keyboards if the old behaviour is no longer available.

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u/nedthehead — 3 days ago