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Double Tap I want to be able to switch back and forth depending upon who I am texting or emailing.
YES! Same problem here. Extremely frustrating. But
there are short-term solutions.
The first thing to understand is that
for the developper, it is possible to provide manual language selection in Google Voice Typing. For instance, the Reverso translation app correctly sets Google Voice Typing to the correct language, and some other keyboards let you select the language.
My temporary fix is to use the keyboard icon at the bottom right of Swiftkeys to switch between my usual keyboard (Gboard or Swiftkeys) and Speechkeys, which is not great but *does* let you select the input language for Google Voice Typing. It's not an ideal keyboard as when you switch it shows you a long list of languages instead of your favorites — so I'm hoping that Swiftkeys adds a setting, and lets you select just from your installed languages instead of a huge list.
My second recommendation to everyone here is to go leave Swiftkey app feedback on the Google Play store, requesting that feature. With enough of the same requests, they will pay attention. We need to request a setting in the application, a setting that lets us turn off automatic language detection, and a button to select the voice typing language.
If anyone knows other voice keyboards that let you select the input language, please share here.