Today if you want to dictate a message on Gboard You first have to tap the microphone icon that appears in the top bar, or change the keyboard directly to Google Voice Typing, but in the future you will have the best of both worlds, if you want.
Google is working on a transparent voice input mode, which will allow the keyboard hears us as soon as it is opened, without having to press the microphone button. This is optional, so whoever prefers to stay as before will be free to do so.
Gboard dictation, even simpler
The Gboard dictation function is somewhat different if you have a Pixel or another Android mobile, but in both cases it is not activated as standard, but rather we need Tap the microphone icon to make Gboard listen to us and start transcribing what we say.
In the future this second step will no longer be necessary if we have enabled Smooth voice typing, which we could translate as something like fluent vocal writing. Google describes this new feature with the following text: “start typing by voice automatically when the keyboard is displayed“.
Screenshot by @AssembleDebug
This change, which is not yet active, but was discovered after dumping the APK of the latest beta version of Gboard, will delight those who frequently use voice typing and this will slightly horrify those who don’t, because it implies that Gboard will listen to us every time the keyboard is displayed.
In practice, this novelty could be counterproductive if you use your cell phone in places where people are talking around youbecause it would make writing to your Gboard a real mess, although you’ll have to wait until you try it to find out how it works.
If this sounds like a bad idea to you, the good news is that will be optional and with the complete certainty that it will not be active as standard, so if you do not want it, everything will remain as today.
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