[FIX] No Voice Input Button On Android Keyboard Settings

So it seems your mobile device is also missing the voice input button on the standard keyboard. Recently I was using the Google keyboard app on my S6 and most of the time by the help of microphone; for typing, I used to use voice-to-text input button from this Android keyboard settings. Fix Missing Microphone Button on Android/Samsung Keyboard - Recently Google Keyboard updated to ver. 3.2+; and what I found is the voice input key in Google Keyboard has been disappeared. Most of the times, we like to input the text by dictating the words on the microphone with the help of Android keyboard. But what if the microphone icon has been gone? No worries. There is a solution to bring it back again to serve you, so stop searching for voice input key, android keyboard missing microphone, voice input key missing Google keyboard or Google voice typing missing. There are several voice input apps in Play Store but learn how to fix missing microphone voice-to-text input button comes with standard Android keyboard.

[Fix] No Voice Input Button On Android Keyboard Settings

Recently we have seen how to Fix on screen display flickering error usually occurs after updating the mobile operating system. Google keyboard is one of the best keyboards for Android phones FREE. The Google Swype makes the typing fast and easy with gesture and voice.
But, I recently faced the problem of missing voice input button from the keyboard and I was sure that I didn't did anything wrong with my mobile device previously. After the troubleshooting, I finally found a solution in Android operating systems including Jellybean, KitKat, Lollipop. And also, I can say that this is not the issue either with your mobile OS software nor with your mobile hardware.

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Fix Missing Voice Input Button on the Standard Keyboard

If you can't enable android keyboard voice input then follow the steps as it is written to enable the speech to text voice input key microphone button missing from standard Android keyboard.

1. Go to Settings >> Controls Tab >> Language and input.

2. Make sure you have selected Samsung Keyboard or Google Keyboard as a default.

3. In Language and input setting >> Select Google voice typing.

4. Done!

[Update 14 March 2016]

Android 5.1 Lollipop

Even voice input was enabled and if you long press the setting key it will open the setting menu and it won't consist the voice input option. So the solution found in Keyboard Setting App running in the background.

Go to Settings >> General Tab >> Application manager >> Running apps >> Go to Google Keyboard. Here you will see another setting menu that you not able to access from anywhere. Now enable the option for Google Voice Typing. And you are done.

Advanced QuickTip: Turn Google Search and Google Voice Search apps ON and check.


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