Speech-to-text function

[Habanero]

I happen to use this quite a bit. Most people may not use this feature but I thought I'd post this anyway.

I noticed that this function did not work near as well on the S8+ vs. my Note 3. It wasn't as polished and didn't offer the same nice features. It honestly wass a hassle to use. I looked at the settings when I first got the phone but saw nothing that would change it. So I looked again this morning. General Management, Language and Input, Virtual Keyboard, Manage Keyboards. Then de-select Samsung Voice Input. When I firest looked at these settings, I just looked at the setting right above it called Google Voice Typing which was selected (keep that one selected). De-selecting the Samsung Voice Input did the trick.

Anyway, much better now!

 

[Habanero]

Wow, I've used the speech-to-text a bit now since I got rid of the Samsung version. Big difference in many areas! Response time, ease of use, accuracy, and user friendliness is much better than the Samsung version. I hope when that Bixby Voice comes out that it is refined and not like their version of the speech-to-text. Maybe that's why it was delayed.

 

[Habanero]

Well, now it seems that disabling the Samsung Voice Input is only temporary. Every few hours it reverts back to it. It's ticking me off. It's 6 taps in order to disable it again. So it seems Samsung really wants you to use it but it sucks. So I hope they correct this or I will be getting rid of this phone fast. I'm not impressed. Of course, I could be missing something.....