Nowadays If you want to dictate a message on Gboard You first need to press the microphone icon that appears in the top bar or directly switch the keyboard to Google Voice Typing; but in the future, you’ll have the best of both worlds if you want.

Google is working on Seamless voice typing mode. The keyboard hears us as soon as it openswithout having to press the microphone button. This is optional, so whoever chooses to remain as before will be free to do so.

Dictating on Gboard just got easier

The Gboard dictation function is slightly different if you have a Pixel or another Android mobile phone, but in both cases it is not enabled as standard, we need it instead Press the microphone icon to have Gboard listen to us and start writing down what we said.

If we enable this second step in the future it will be unnecessary. Typing with perfect voice, we can translate this as something like fluent voice typing. Google explains this innovation with the following text: “Start typing by voice automatically when the keyboard is displayed“.

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This change, which is not yet active but was discovered after the APK of the latest beta version of Gboard was released, will be pleasing. People who frequently use voice typing and it will leave those who haven’t that a little dismayed, as it means Gboard will be listening in on us every time the keyboard is shown.

In practice, this innovation can take the form of: If you use your mobile phone in places where there are people talking around you, it will have adverse effects.because that would make your Gboard’s typing really messed up, but we’ll have to wait to try it to find out how it works.

If this seems like a terrible idea, the good news is will be optional and we are with complete certainty that it will not be active by default, so if you don’t want it, everything will remain as it is today.

via | 9to5Google and GApps Signs and Leaks

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