I've noticed lately that Google Voice input has changed lately and not for the better. It used to underline words that it didn't seem sure were correct and if it was wrong, I could touch the word and similar sounding words would drop down in a short menu. I don't know what happened, but it no longer does that. If it hears me wrong, I have to close the Google Voice input screen and activate my keyboard to correct it, which kinda defeats the purpose of using the GVI. Also, it often gets "hung up" when I activate it; as in, it doesn't immediately respond or respond at all. I have to touch to turn it off and back on before it will respond to what I'm saying.

What can I do to correct these problems?

 

Someone else I know discovered similar problems on older versions of Android and one solution was to activate Google Search again. I looked for that on the current version of Android that I have (5.1.1) and see that it's gone. I'm assuming the Google App you speak of is what I updated instead just a short while ago. I searched in Google Play for Google Search and the first result was an app called just 'Google'.

I thought it just started happening within the last two months since I switched from LG back to Samsung, but now I'm not entirely sure. I think I may be losing my mind. lol

 

So it's now the norm for the voice-to-talk to just type out whatever it thinks you said and not give options to correct it within the text without deactivating the VTT and activating the keyboard to correct?

 

Many many thanks for your assistance!