"Hey Google" A Few Questions About It

Trying to understand my new Android phone here, does the Hey Google feature set up the speak-to-text in 3rd-party apps like YouTube, Telegram, Notes, etc? That access doesn’t work for me on any or my apps. I always shutdown lots of unnecessary feature when I get a new electronic device and I think I may have shut this down without knowing.

I just want to use a speak-to-text feature to talk into apps for navigation purposes of finding stuff in YouTube or a talk-to-text message through Telegram and talking into the default Notes and that’s it really. I don’t need the OS to setup alerts, or whatever else it does. I don’t want a Siri or Alexa type equivalent listening to everything I say and logging it.

I want to use a talk-to-text feature only when using that app like the ones I said above. And if I can activate it by just pressing an icon and then it works only then and no other time then that would be ideal. I have my iPhone setup this way, can I do it with Android? I think the hey Google is like Siri or Alexa if that is correct? I don’t want my own personal Big Brother listening to everything I say and sending it to my profile to NSA in Tooele, Utah.

You get that by default when you use these features… you know that, yes?

You can use the google keyboard function with the microphone icon instead. It converts what you say to text input for the active app. This doesn’t run all the time, but also uses google cloud :/.

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AnySoftKeyboard can also perform voice input.

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@Cue
I don’t think it can itself, it still relies on the system provider.

You need an app like:

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Yes. Your explanation is more complete.