The above advice came from a fellow name H Pham on the Yahoo Tracfone I got voice typing back by a much more circuitous route but I think the If you see an 'Auto' option for language, you can experiment with it,īut I don't think it will work. Language you're using before it can transcribe voice.

Program still won't give you the microphone because it has to know what I know you've done that, but that's just half of what needs to be done. Go to Settings->Language & Input and make sure Google Voice Typing is Iĭon't know if 4.2 is the same, but maybe it is. O Yep, Microphone is now there, so choose it. O Long press on the button to the left of the space bar O exit out, and return to a text/sms screen O Swipe screen from right to left several times: from downloaded, past SD CARD, past running, then to DISABLED (if you don't see a disabled tab, then this suggested cure is not for you - you have another issue - try googling or installing Google Search) Here's were I went to enable things on Android 4.3. It just so happened I disabled it when I went on a rampage of trying to optimise my phone.

In the end I didn't need to, as I found that the service that provides the MICROPHONE option is called Google Search.

On the suggestion of the comment somewhere in this thread of downgrading the installed version I went hunting on the phone to see if I can restore a previous version. You've done some great research in this thread, and I too have been hunting for that elusive microphone icon so I can talk out my texts.

Lost voice to text on android