Speech-to-text Android phone using multiple languages issue

[Papageno]

If anyone has more than one language set up on their Android (16) phone* and uses speech to text sometimes, does it ever do this? Namely, I'll be dictating something in English and suddenly for no reason it thinks it hears German and auto-switches to that language and of course transcribes the silliest closest approximation of German it can find, which ends up being nonsense. Is there a way to get it to not auto-switch languages in that situation?

*(I have English, Spanish-which presents me a keyboard that works for both Spanish and English, although it sucks for English because all the little virtual keys are narrower to fit the ñ, and German (which basically swaps the z and the y around, which drives me nuts, because I'm used to writing German on US layout keyboards, but oh well.)

 

[Coriolanus]

If anyone has more than one language set up on their Android (16) phone* and uses speech to text sometimes, does it ever do this? Namely, I'll be dictating something in English and suddenly for no reason it thinks it hears German and auto-switches to that language and of course transcribes the silliest closest approximation of German it can find, which ends up being nonsense. Is there a way to get it to not auto-switch languages in that situation?

*(I have English, Spanish-which presents me a keyboard that works for both Spanish and English, although it sucks for English because all the little virtual keys are narrower to fit the ñ, and German (which basically swaps the z and the y around, which drives me nuts, because I'm used to writing German on US layout keyboards, but oh well.)

Have you tried switching keyboards? I use SwiftKey and it supports speech to text. I just added Mandarin and it works fine. Plus, I toggle between languages so it doesn't rely on auto language recognition.

 

[Papageno]

Have you tried switching keyboards? I use SwiftKey and it supports speech to text. I just added Mandarin and it works fine. Plus, I toggle between languages so it doesn't rely on auto language recognition.

Hmm, I used SwiftKey for a while about 10 years ago and should still have a license for it (if it works like that). How does one even check one's licenses on the Google Play store anyway?

 

[continuum]

How does one even check one's licenses on the Google Play store anyway?

Can confirm this, which I ripped from Google search advice, is correct:

Google Play Store app, tap your profile icon, and go to Payments & subscriptions > Budget & history.

 

[Papageno]

Can confirm this, which I ripped from Google search advice, is correct:

Google Play Store app, tap your profile icon, and go to Payments & subscriptions > Budget & history.

That's only showing me one thing I bought last November (a Sudoku app), and nothing else (and I've had the same Gmail account since you had to get an invitation, maybe for 20 years?). So it looks like it forgets about keeping track after a while. And back in 2013 or 2014 when I paid for it, it wasn't called Microsoft SwiftKey.

Just looked it up in my email and found the receipt for $1.99 from late December 2013!

 

[continuum]

it wasn't called Microsoft SwiftKey.

I bought it 10 years ago before Microsoft rebranded them, and can confirm that my old purchase does call it "Microsoft SwiftkeyAI Keyboard." So looks like the rebranding will be applied to your old purchases...