Where to leave official feedback about speech-to-text engine?

[Kizzume]

Can someone lead me to where I can make complaints/feedback about how Google's speech-to-text engine has become unusable? And I can't find any replacements for it either. Dragon *might* work if I wanted to give them $15 a month for their app they falsely advertise as free.

If I wait even 1/10 of a second before saying "period", it will write the word "period", same with "comma" which it sometimes writes as "Kama". If I wait more than 1/4 second after saying anything, it shuts off detection and I have to hit the mic button again.

It no longer seems to understand grammar of just about any kind anymore. It will create ridiculous sentences. It doesn't seem to know the difference between then and than, it gives strange results for simple words like "the" and "is" and "of" and "she", sometimes replacing them with things that don't even sound remotely close.

I have very clear pronunciation and a decent speaking voice, I've been a DJ before.

I can't seem to find any appropriate place to ask about this.

The speech-to-text engine took a dump as far as usability back in January of 2015, but what has happened to it over the past couple months (and especially over the past couple weeks) makes it unusable---and yet, we're watching so many apps come out that are ONLY available on mobile..... so I'm supposed to go with typing MAYBE 5-10 words a minute on the on-screen keyboard? Or maybe get a bluetooth keyboard that can only be used when I'm sitting at a table and cuts out letters randomly no matter what keyboard I get? Man I miss smartphones with nice slide-out keyboards.

I'm so frustrated now. And Android emulators for Windows like Bluestacks are really buggy, so that's not an option either for most apps.

I rely on speech-to-text all the time on my smartphone, and I can barely use it now, and I can't find anywhere to give feedback about it because it's not an actual app.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! I think the most specific place in Google's settings to give feedback would be in the Google app -- bring up Google Now, tap Menu>Settings>Voice, then tap the question mark at the upper right. In the subsequent Help screen, select Send Feedback.

 

[schoonpsu]

I have been going nuts trying to find ANYONE that has seen the same performance with speech to text.
This seems related to the latest Android update and/or the new GBoard update, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to go with this.
My biggest issue is that the speech corrections no longer appear. Previously with the speech mode active you could go back and highlight words/phrases and it would offer alternatives that were clearly based on the sound of what you dictated. These were different than the basic word suggestions when typing.
Also some of the punctuation has been removed like "colon" : "comma" and "period" still work. My suspicion is that this is related to Gboard (which also seems to have gotten worse), but I am really wondering if it's just me experiencing this?