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I have been a fan of Google Voice Typing for a long time. I use it for 2 languages, English and Italian.

On the Android Keyboard, I can switch the language of the spell-checker by pressing the "World" icon. Until a few months ago, that would also change the language of Google Voice Typing, i.e. when I pressed the microphone icon and started speaking, Google Voice Typing would interpret my words in the language I had selected on the keyboard.

Right now instead, Google Voice Typing got "smarter" and doesn't care about my keyboard setting, it just automatically detects the language I'm speaking. Of course, it gets it wrong most of the time, and that is very frustrating, in particular because when I speak Italian (my mother tongue), it often thinks I am speaking English instead.

So, does anybody know if I can disable this automatic language detection and revert to the old behavior? Or do you have any suggestions on a workaround?

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  • have you found a solution? That problem drives me nuts too. My temporary fix is to switch between my usual keyboard (Gboard or Swiftkeys) and Speechkeys, which is not great but does let you select the input language for Google Voice Typing. It's not an ideal keyboard as when you switch it shows you a long list of languages instead of favorites, so I'm looking for alternatives. Would love to hear any updates on your part!
    – zx81
    Commented Feb 13, 2019 at 12:33
  • Not really, the only workaround is to speak very slowly and split the words very clearly...
    – Andrea Zonca
    Commented Feb 13, 2019 at 16:21
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    Ha, so you still have the issue. For switching languages, SpeechKeys works but is really ugly and gives you a list with all the languages of the world every time you switch, instead of your installed ones... It would be great to have the feature within the Gboard or SwiftKey keyboards. One way to get their attention is to post reviews in the Play Store. Also just posted a feature request on the SwiftKey forum, in case anyone can be bothered to comment and vote.
    – zx81
    Commented Feb 14, 2019 at 11:28

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Unfortunately at the moment it is impossible to disable automatic language detection and force the speech to text to interpret spoken words with the language set manually in the keyboard.

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Go to Settings app of your phone and choose Google Voice typing option. Inside this you have an option to choose your Default Primary Language, as shown in below screen shot:

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You can chose your Default (Italian) by Press + Hold the language name. Click SAVE and Google voice typing should pick your Updated default Primary Language irrespective of your Keyboard Settings.

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  • Thanks! I already have this setup as you explain. Unfortunately it still detects language automatically.
    – Andrea Zonca
    Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 14:04
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This is a two-step process:

  • Settings > Language & input > Google Keyboard > Languages. Here disable English (disable Use System language if enabled) & only enable Italian.

  • Also in your Google Voice Typing option, set your Default Primary language as Italian.

Now Voice Typing will not pick up English words even if you wanted it to.

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  • I want to be able to do Voice Typing both in Italian and English, I just want to choose manually instead of automatically ( which is usually wrong)
    – Andrea Zonca
    Commented Sep 1, 2016 at 14:53
  • Sure definitely. Choose your language as mentioned in the post.
    – rakshakhegde
    Commented Sep 3, 2016 at 11:24

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