Voice to text / Dictation

Jason Anderson shared this idea 1 year ago

Planned

How do i get to voice to text when i'm not able to type? other keyboards have a button you long press that takes you there... i love voice to text

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Bruno Löffel

speech input?

Whats about speech input? It would be great.

Bruno Löffel

Google voice to text

Access button to google voice to text would be great. I like to use this way to write short messages.

Peter Perrinez

Siri/voice activation not available

So far, I like the keyboard. it is different, and that is taking some getting used to.

In my state in the USA, we cannot have our phones in our hands anymore (hands free law, yay!), this allows for more safety. as a result, I use voice to text a lot while driving. to do this I click the microphone button to the left of the space bar on the standard iOS keyboard, and Siri pops up for voice inputs and will translate into my text message.

this button isn't anywhere that I have seen on the WRIO keyboard. as such, I will have to swap between keyboards in order to use this feature.

thank you for your consideration.

Benji

Microphone Button

So far I love this keyboard but I miss having a microphone button when I just want to speak my texts while on the run. I guess I could just use my watch but I like the option.

Simson L. Garfinkel

Dictation

No dictation buttoN?

Simson L. Garfinkel

Dictation

No dictation buttoN?

A. Georgian

voice typping and others

1.This keyboard is nice but its missing google voice support.

2.Also it would be nice to have a caps lock button, there are times when i need to write only in capitals.

3.When keeping pressed on a letter to show characters from other languages, its difficult to see them because my finger of course blocks the view, so it would be nice when doing that to show the special characters a bit above the normal letters.

4. Better feedback when pressing the letters, including vibration and a short preview of the letter that i just pressed like in other keyboards.

5. Give us the option to change the order of the buttons how we want and even hide or disable some that we dont use. For example the left space bar , im used to pressing the space bar with my right thump, i never use the left one.

6. Option for writing mathematical formulas, for example m2 (m square)

7. Why does it need to take 2 weeks to get auto predictive text? For better precision? If yes at least give us a basic auto correction thing till the keyboard learns how i write... The same way Swift Key does. Also i understand all this data is stored onto our phones? So when we change our phone how do we do? Will we have an option to back up the data in google drive or one drive? Or we will need to install the keyboard and wait again for 2weeks...?

Robert M. Münch

How can I activate Siri voice input?

I'm mlssing the mic key.

Rene

How can I activate Google voice input?

I want to have the Google Voice input like the microphone symbol in the Android keyboard...

I like this idea

Comments (20)

Janis Berneker ● 1 year ago

Hi Simson

Not yet but it already has some votes for it in another topic. I'll merge it with it. :)

Best

Janis

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Lake Phillips ● 1 year ago

Will not keep this without dictation key.

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David ● 1 year ago

Hi guys - there are others that would like this feature as well, so I'm merging the topic to increase the votes. We'll look at it how it can be done and let you guys know when we'll implement it. Hope you have a little bit of patience with us and we'll make it work :) Cheers, David

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Mark Magram ● 1 year ago

This should be a simple callout to the native android voice dictation. the shortcut key is needed

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Kimberly ● 1 year ago

Love this idea. Looklng forward to future updates.

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Janis Berneker ● 1 year ago

Thanks a lot for all the ideas! :)

To let the users vote for new features it's important to create a single topic for each idea. For most of the ones you posted there's already a topic. So you can just vote for these

1. http://community.wrio-keyboard.com/topic/voice-to-text

2. http://community.wrio-keyboard.com/topic/caps-lock

3. You always see the letter which will be typed in the textfield itself also the accents. The update automatically when switching between them. That way you don't have to look at the keyboard.

4. http://community.wrio-keyboard.com/topic/haptic-feedback For the preview no topic exists yet at the moment I think.

5. http://community.wrio-keyboard.com/topic/reorganize-the-keyboard

6. This one is new actually. Do you use mathematical formulas often? Which characters are needed? Would be great if you could open a new topic for that one.

7. When we asked 150 persons what they hate most on their current keyboard, it was the autocorrection. Often it corrects something wrong. That's why our approach is that the keyboard learns the words you use and doesn't import a dictionary with a lot of words you never write. When we finish autocorrection for iOS we will work on an export and import feature to be able to backup the dictionary. We'll see if there's a simple way without adding internet connection.

Thanks again for all these ideas! :)

Have a nice evening!

Janis

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A. Georgian ● 1 year ago

Hello, thanks for your reply.

How about in stead of autocorrection you put suggestions? The keyboard will detect what im trying to write and suggest a word for it. But by keep writing or pressing space wont automatically autocorrect the word , this prevents bad autocorretions, and if ok we can just click that word.

Mathematical formulas i used them a lot in high school, its quite handy. Now not as much but still you never know when you might need. The most important i think are x^2 x^3, the greek letters delta pi ,e^x, x^y ,square root, cube root nth root, angle , angle between a and b , arc, line segment , paralel, congruent to.perpendicular, distance. golden ration +/- , >= , not equal sign, much less than, much greater than, aproximatly equal, absolute value , limits integrals.

Again thank you for your reply.

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Jason Patrick ● 1 year ago

I see a number of comments for Android phones, but don't forget about iOS. I use the Voice-2-Text option for typing all the time. I would love to try this app, but without the microphone key, I simply couldn't use it.

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Janis Berneker ● 1 year ago

Hi Jason

Thanks a lot for your feedback. We have to check first if we can use this iOS-feature in our keyboard because it's possible that Apple doesn't give the possibility to other keyboards to access Voice-to-Text. With Android it should be possible.

Have a nice weekend! :)

Janis

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Abhilash Kumar ● 1 year ago

This is essential. The keyboard hasnt helped speed me up much but i really like the keys and the gestures. Dictation is essential for times when we cant use both hands.

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Simson L. Garfinkel ● 1 year ago

I have stopped using the Wrio keyboard because it doesn't have the dictation button.

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Abhilash Kumar ● 1 year ago

I want to as well but this keyboard has spoiled my spacing and deleting habit.

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Mark Magram ● 1 year ago

I have also stopped. I did not mind overcoming the learning curve but without the voice button it's a lost cause. I have android so if it can be easily done for android please release an update with a simple shortcut for voice to text. I've purchased the app and I would like a refund otherwise.

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Janis Berneker ● 1 year ago

Hi guys

We have it on our todo list and will start to implement it soon. We just have to fix some bugs first.

So stay tuned. :)

Have a nice weekend!

Janis

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Mark Magram ● 1 year ago

I am a developer myself and I have an android app available in the app store with a few thousand active users. I understand all too well, and I will wait for further updates. I appreciate the response.

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Jens ● 1 year ago

Would like to emphasize the need to implement this feature. I love your keyboard and its original approach but I definitely need dictation features for me to keep using it. I just bought it today on Play but will ask for a refund if this isn't confirmed to come soon to the app.

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Janis Berneker ● 1 year ago

Hi Jens

It's on our todo list and we want to implement it within the next one or two months. But I can't confirm it definitely because we don't know yet if it's doable like we want. But it should. :)

Best

Janis

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David ● 10 months ago

Hi Robert, unfortunately, as of today, Apple does not allow third-party keyboards to access Siri. We know this is a nuisance and hope this will be changed soon. In our upcoming updates, we will look into alternatives or workarounds to this problem. Hope to keep you onboard. Best, David

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Robert M. Münch ● 10 months ago

Ok, got it.

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Janis Berneker ● 8 months ago

Hi Rene

Thanks for your feedback! Voice to text support is not implemented yet but is planned. I'll merge this post with another one about this topic.

Best

Janis

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