Anyone know of any Android text messaging apps that types out what you say?

[Reasonable Doubt]

Anyone know of any Android text messaging apps that types out what you say?

Someone I know has a LG smartphone but she is used to the talk to text that was on her Samsung phone. It is not on her new LG phone. What are some options to put one on there?


Thanks in advance.

 

[mikeymikec]

If I understand your question (how to convert speech to text), it's not the messaging app's job. Using the (AFAIK) current keyboard app on Android (GBoard), I get a button that looks like an old-style microphone in the top-right corner of the keyboard layout. I press that, then I can talk into my phone and it converts my speech to text, which gets inserted into the message I'm constructing.

I'm not 100% sure what the dependencies are; in Settings > Language & Input, I have 'google voice typing' as a separate input device, then in GBoard's options (in the same settings area), I have google voice typing again.

 

[MrSquished]

It's not the texting app it's the keyboard. Every keyboard I've tried has a voice button, that often looks like a little microphone. That launches Google voice typing, as stated above.

Sent on the go from my LG V20

 

[WelshBloke]

Google assistant will do all this.

"Ok Google. Send a text message to Reasonable Doubt."

That works for me.
On the minus side, anyone else irked by the lack of punctuation in Google voice recognition? I would think that it should be able to do that without promoting.

 

[Rifter]

Every android keyboard i have used in the last 5 years does this. Just hit the mic button.

 

[Reasonable Doubt]

Every android keyboard i have used in the last 5 years does this. Just hit the mic button.

I can't find the mic button when texting. The phones a LG X charge.

 

[Rifter]

what keyboard are you using?

 

[Reasonable Doubt]

I figured it out.

You just have to hold down the gear button on the keyboard when texting then the mic option pops up.