r/gboard

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!

I mean I would be ok if ancient Pixel 6 wouldn't have offline Rambler but Pixel 11 so-called-PRO speech to text.

Anyhoo - Rambler is nothing else than current Gemini chat.

Hi everyone, I was a long time lover of a keyboard with intutive swipe gestures (swipe left to delete, swipe up to undo auto correct etc), and after getting a new phone recently, I was extremely saddened to find out the old keyboard is no more.

Video of it in action

I spent the past month trying out different keyboards, gboard, swiftkey, samsung keyboard, heliboard, FUTO, Florisboard, Typewise ETC.

You name it, I tried it, but none of them had the features I wanted, especially the swipe gestures that I have 10 years of muscle memory for.

Then I thought, why dont I just make my own? But from researching open source keyboards, it is clear that the auto correct and other feature just cant compete with the industry giants like gboard and swiftykey. Then it hit me:

Introducing Flexboard! It is a morphe patch for gboard, and completely open source

https://morphe.software/add-source?github=JZ6/Flexboard

After a lot of hard work I am excited to release the first version for everyone to try out!

Personally I have been enjoying the ease of swipe gestures working in tandem with the best in class gboard auto correct, and I hope you guys will give it a try and leave some feedback if any :)

P.S. More featues incoming on the roadmap, hotkeys anyone ;)

Probably at least a third of the time I try to use the microphone it's lighting up as if it's working but it's not actually typing anything that I'm saying. I'll try over and over and it aggravates the heck out of me and won't work. Another issue I have is even when it does work it types so many things wrong but if I use the microphone on Samsung browser or Google or Gemini or anything else it's s extremely accurate so I'm not sure what the issue is with me and gboard

I'm curious. I want to know where gboard gets their stickers from, and I'm wondering if some of it comes from WhatsApp?

I don't have WhatsApp downloaded, and I don't have any interest in downloading the app. But, there are apps that lets you make stickers that could be put up in WhatsApp. Is it possible that gboard pulls some of the stickers from WhatsApp for people to use, regardless if they have the app or not?

Why does my keyboard resize and cover half the screen when I switch to the emoji library?

Any fix to keeping the keyboard size the same when switching from text keyboard to emojis?

Honor 400 user.

Hi odd problem I can’t seem to fix. Whenever i type certain sentences, it adds the word “to” or “but” right before i press send (most often WhatsApp) and its quite annoying since I can’t catch it on time and then have to edit the message. What can I do/what is this feature called in settings. I’ve tried to google it but what I’ve mostly found regards the spelling/correction of words and not just adding them at the end of the sentence.

I very clearly said "She's looking for it right now."

As in a statement.

This is what gboard heard: "Is she looking for it right now"

Yesterday it thought I said "sliding" instead of "hiding."

I stopped using it a while ago because it was getting crazy and I see now that it has not improved at all. In fact it is continually getting worse. Are there people whose jobs it is to fix this and they're just not doing it for the money they're making? Genuinely asking.

I've tried everything I can, but I can't enable AI on my Gboard. I have a Galaxy S26+, my Gboard is in both English and Portuguese, and I'm on the beta tester version. I've tried to update AI Core and Google's apps, but nothing has changed. I know it's launched in batches, but some people already have this option, and I don't.

Any ideas? Thanks.

I cannot figure out what is wrong with my voice typing feature for my Google account. I use the voice typing feature all the time and understand that if I say the word “period” or “comma” It adds the symbol. However, all of a sudden it stopped doing that. Now it just inserts the word or the word in brackets. I’ve tried everything I can think of to fix this problem with no luck. Even my tech department can’t figure this out. It seems to only be effecting me and my account.

Anyone out there experience something similar or have a possible solution? It seemed to started after I added some extensions, but I deleted those and there was no change.

For context, this is happing on my work pc and at home on Mac. I don’t usually use this feature on the Google app on my phone.

Gboard's predictions have become so inaccurate that I can't use swipe anymore; I can only press keys. In these days of artificial intelligence, Gboard's predictions feel really stupid.