Using iOS's voice to text will stop transcribing pre-maturely

[Avi0n]

Steps to reproduce

1. Tap mic icon on iOS keyboard and start talking
2. Transcription will stop pre-maturely

Outcome

What did you expect?

For the transcription to keep going until I am ready for it to stop.

What happened instead?

The transcription ended pre-maturely on it's own.

Your phone model

iPhone 15 Pro Max

Operating system version

iOS 17.1

Application version

1.4.0 (77)

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

Yes

[Velin92]

This is actually a known RTE issue, that we also had on legacy El-iOS
element-hq/element-ios#7489

This was caused by the diffing check present in the RTE iOS library

[Avi0n]

This is still an issue for me on two different devices on the latest TestFlight build: 1.4.2 (79)

[Velin92]

Reopened the issue since we discovered that due to how iOS 17.0 manages input mode this issue is not fixed on the new iOS version.

[jacotec]

@Velin92 Is there any schedule to fix this? It makes EX more or less unusable in the car, and even in normal use dictation is a pretty helpful functionality.

[Velin92]

@Velin92 Is there any schedule to fix this? It makes EX more or less unusable in the car, and even in normal use dictation is a pretty helpful functionality.

We are looking into how to fix this, in the meantime however you can disable the rich text mode in the advanced settings and the dictation should work fine.

[jacotec]

@Velin92 I already tried this in the past and it did not work, @pixlwave commented in my #2204 that the RTE is always loaded regardless of the switch.

But I'll try again ... maybe something was changed regarding the switch.

[Velin92]

@Velin92 I already tried this in the past and it did not work, @pixlwave commented in my #2204 that the RTE is always loaded regardless of the switch.

But I'll try again ... maybe something was changed regarding the switch.

We recently have changed how the RTE plain text mode is handled, give it a try in the latest version it should at least work when RTE is actually disabled

[Avi0n]

@Velin92 On the latest TestFlight build (1.5.2, 85) this issue is solved, but now the app is crashing when pressing the mic again to stop. Opened a new issue to track: #2344

edit: Noticed another problem. Double tapping space to insert a period no longer works while editing a message: #2345

[jacotec]

@Avi0n Good finding - confirmed, it does not work at all now and immediately crashes on all my devices.

[stefanceriu]

Thanks for letting us know, we found the problem and we'll fix it asap 👍