"Hey Google" A Few Questions About It

invalid@example.com (SennaSempre), SennaSempre
Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:50:25 +0000
Mobile Devices

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...