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Voice typing

Tap the mic at the right end of the strip above the keys, and speak. Flikzi types what you say. Voice typing is part of Flikzi Pro, and it is on for the first 14 days after you install.

Speak, then tap the mic to stop​

  1. Tap the mic. It turns amber and the strip says it is listening.
  2. Speak. Your words appear in the text as you say them, underlined until the sentence is finished.
  3. Keep going: Flikzi listens for the next sentence without another tap.
  4. Tap the mic again when you're done. It also stops by itself after a silence, as soon as you touch a key, and when the keyboard hides.

Flikzi puts a space between what was there and what you say, and starts a new sentence with a capital. Full stops and commas come from Android's speech recognition, where it adds them.

The sound stays on your phone​

Flikzi uses the speech recognition that Android runs on the phone itself. The sound is turned into text there and is never sent anywhere. Flikzi has no internet permission, so it couldn't send it either. Flikzi doesn't keep the sound, and it learns nothing from what you say.

Allowing the microphone​

A keyboard can't use the microphone until you allow it. The first time you tap the mic, a small card explains this. Tap Allow microphone, and Android asks its question. Choose While using the app. If you tap Not now, nothing changes and Flikzi works as before.

If you refused before and Android no longer asks, open Settings, Apps, Flikzi, Permissions, Microphone, and allow it there.

Which language it hears​

Flikzi listens in the language you are typing in. Switch language with a flick up on the left half of the space bar, then tap the mic.

Android's speech recognition needs that language on the phone. If it is missing, the strip says so and Android offers to download it. Android does the download, not Flikzi. Tap the mic again once it is done. If Android has no speech recognition for the language at all, the strip says that instead.

Where the mic doesn't show​

  • Password fields. Voice typing is never offered there.
  • Number and phone fields.
  • Without Flikzi Pro. After the 14-day trial the mic goes away, unless you keep Pro.
  • When you turned it off. In the Flikzi app, Voice typing in the Flikzi Pro box shows or hides the mic.

Phones without on-device speech recognition​

Voice typing on the phone itself needs Android 12 or later and a phone that has it. Not every phone does.

  • If your phone has a voice typing keyboard instead, such as Google voice typing, the mic opens that keyboard and you come back to Flikzi when you finish. That keyboard is not Flikzi. It follows its own privacy rules, its maker may receive the sound of what you say, and it can read the text in the field you speak into. Flikzi asks once before it opens that keyboard for the first time: tap Use it to agree, then tap the mic again.
  • If the phone has neither, the mic still shows. Tap it and a card says what is missing. Keyboard settings opens Android's keyboard list, where you can switch on Google voice typing if the phone has it. That is Google's keyboard, and Google may receive the sound of what you say there. Hide the mic takes the mic off the strip, and Voice typing in the Flikzi Pro box brings it back.

If it doesn't hear you​

  • "Heard nothing." Tap the mic and speak a little closer to the phone.
  • "The microphone is in use." A call or another app is recording. Try again after it.
  • "Voice typing stopped." Tap the mic again. Flikzi reconnects to Android's speech recognition by itself.