GBoard - Speech to Text "Initializing" Issue...

[Rose4uKY]

Rose,
It's actually re-booting that starts the broken behavior all over again!
The process above needs to be after every re-boot - if you want to use Google's Voice to Text.

It still reliably works for me.
Hope it works for you too!

Oh well I don't remember rebooting that's weird maybe I did. But in the beginning when I first got the watch it did it with Samsung too not just google.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Re: GBoard - Speech to Text "Initializing" Issue...

Thanks to Zeromph on XDA, here's a work-around until Google fixes their broken code...

On the watch, go to Settings -> Privacy -> Permission Manager -> Microphone -> Gboard -> choose "Ask every time".​

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Then trigger Gboard by composing a message in a relevant app (i.e., Messages etc). Click on the voice typing icon. You should get -- "Allow Gboard to record audio?" -> pick "While using the app"​

This works reliably.

Looks like they didn't like this work around, doesn't work anymore, at least for me it doesn't now. It worked back then.

 

[saltrane]

I recently had this problem when I first used voice to text. I have both wifi and mobile data turned off. My problem was solved by turning on mobile data. I believe many problems are the connection to wifi or internet.

 

[mustang7757]

I recently had this problem when I first used voice to text. I have both wifi and mobile data turned off. My problem was solved by turning on mobile data. I believe many problems are the connection to wifi or internet.

Welcome to AC!
Yes many functions require Internet whether it be Wi-Fi or mobile data