Re: Android keyboard: your choice.

Andrew, 2024-06-21 20:32:

Arno Welzel wrote on Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:08:45 +0200 :
 

I agree it's crazy to do that every single time so I appreciate that you
explained that the beta version can pin the microphone to the toolbar.

>
Just long-press microphone button in the toolbar, so it gets
highlighted. Then it is "pinned" and will stay visible even when the
toolbar is closed.

 
Thanks for responding to my issues, where I just pinned it and it works.
Now the microphone is pinned to HeliBoard KB just as it is to OpenBoard.
 
If the app does not use the Internet, how does it do the Speech-to-Text?
 
Android 13 Galaxy:
Settings > General Management > Text-to-speech > Preferred engine >
 (o) Samsung TTS settings
 (_) Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google
 
The privacy question is whether either of those uses the Internet?
Does anyone know?

It depends on the device. Newer devices have a "TPU" which can handle
speech recognition offline. However older devices may not be as powerful
to do this and always rely on a server.

Simple test: enable airplane mode to disable any kind of network
connection and see, if speech recognition still works. In my case, on a
Google Pixel 6a, this is the case - Google speech recognition even works
without any active network connection at all.


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