My cat was sitting on my lap last night, and when I spoke to her, that seemed to trigger my Android phone to tell me it could not use speech recognition.



Earlier, I had disabled an app. That seemed to block Android from listening through the mic. And now Android is complaining. But I see no loss of functionality in my phone.

The app disabled is: Google Play services.



Early this morning we had a loud storm, with small pieces of ice hitting the house and a downpour. At about that time, Android again complained about its loss of speech recognition!



Did it detect sounds and try to detect speech? This is not something I want my phone doing. I tested my speech to text ability in a text message, and that continues to work well, even with Google Play services disabled. So I do not yet know if I ever needed that on my older Android 10.

Edit: I just tried it again. This time speech-to-text in a message did NOT work. Why would it work the first time I tested it, but not now? So I guess I do lose that functionality by disabling these apps. 🤔

Another Edit: Text-to-speech now works again in a text message, even though I did not enable anything on Android today. I do not know why it resumed working. I want this feature, so that is fine.... However, I do not want my phone listening in when I did not ask it to use the mix. Wait, I am looking at the APPS and see Google is no longer disabled!



I am trying this again....
http://filsofia.com/share/20260506-disable-Google.mp4