Offline voice to text

[77Forever]

Hello, I’m a new android user.

I have the new little dinky palm phone. Here’s the problem.

I want to use the voice to text feature, but I don’t have data on my att prepaid plan. I read how to download the language pack and it shows that it is downloaded. It even works if I put my phone on airplane mode. In fact it works awesome. But if I take my phone off airplane mode it tries to process the transcription online or something because it just sits there and the little wheel spins. Since there isn’t any data on my plan it won’t do anything.

So I need somehow to force it to do all transcribing offline and not try to default to online.

Any ideas? I’ve searched around and not coming up with any answers at all.

Thanks

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Are you using Gboard, or some other keyboard app?

 

[77Forever]

Yes, I am using gboard. Sorry, meant to include that.

 

[B. Diddy]

Hmm, good question. What happens if you turn on the Data Saver option in Settings>Network (assuming it's available on your phone)?

 

[77Forever]

Ok, I put it on data saver and that didn’t change anything. I double checked, and I guess there is no “spinning wheel” like I said. It just doesn’t do anything except the microphone indicator is moving so it’s hearing me.

New info, if I turn data off on my phone voice to text works great, just like airplane mode. However my mms won’t work with the data off. Only sms.

So it seems like att includes small amounts of data for mms even though I have no data on my prepaid plan. But if data is turned on on the phone, the voice to text tries to send the transcription out and can’t so it gets stuck.

 

[77Forever]

I think if I could force Gboard to do all voice to text transcribing on my phone it would work, but if data is turned on it tries to use it. But as I said, there isn’t any to use.

 

[B. Diddy]

Although MMS uses mobile data, I believe the carriers don't count that towards your mobile data allotment.

Do you have wi-fi calling turned on? If so, what happens if you turn it off? I know it seems completely unrelated, but I've seen a number of complaints recently about wonkiness with AT&T's wi-fi calling.

 

[77Forever]

I had WiFi calling on. Turned it off. No change.

 

[mustang7757]

Maybe try going into app in setting and tap Gboard , then scroll to wifi /mobile data and toggle data off

 

[77Forever]

I believe I have all data off to Gboard. Even background.

 

[77Forever]

Any more thoughts on this? Anyone? Still no solution that I can find.

 

[77Forever]

What about a way to force google to process all voice transcription offline? Is there such a privacy setting?

 

[B. Diddy]

I looked around for that, and couldn't find a solution. If there is a solution, my guess it'd probably be some convoluted workaround. In the meantime, one thing to do is give Google feedback about this. It obviously won't solve the issue, but at least you can let them know your thoughts.

 

[77Forever]

Ok, thank you.