In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:48:13 -0400, Mickey D
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mickeyda...@ptd.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 07:32:22 -0400, micky wrote:
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>>>It would be nice to change the default to be the way you don't particularly
>>>like (that is, default to the microphone) but I don't think it's possible.
>>
>> Yes, I've had to tap on the microphone symbol which appears on the
>> original virtual keyboard.
>>
>> Maybe I spend too much time alone, but that's the only time I would be
>> texting. My friend too, who only got a cell phone in March and didn't
>> use it until last week. She's 84, iirc, gets lots of visitors but is
>> still alone most of the time.
>
>Since I send SMS by voice to text almost all the time, I tried every trick
>in this ng to get the OpenBoard or GBoard keyboard to default to the mic.
>
https://support.google.com/gboard/answer/2781851
>
>There are apps which say they do sms by voice but I haven't tried them.
Yesterday I sent 3 texts to the same person by Gboard, and she answered
so they must have worked. It wasn't automatic in that I had to tap the
symbol** on the virtual keyboard but that is really pretty easy.
If the mike was always on, that would be terrible. The voices of people
y ou were with, of the radio, of the waitress, would all be filling the
phone with text you would have to erase. That would only be when you
tapped a text field, so I guess it wouldnt' be so bad.
**Should I call it an icon? I didn't because it's not sitting by
itself.
I wanted that too, and found one app that said it did it. But it had a
low rating and didn't work for me.