There is a component EditText . I would like by some gesture to translate the keyboard into the input by voice. Is it possible?

  • Gesture is understood as, say, a long press on the EditText field. - Einwtien
  • it is already embedded in editText. no more tricks to do with it. - Borisov Max
  • Customer Can't Hit Microphone Icon - Einwtien
  • Another option is to click on the menu item, and the focus went to editText and the keyboard went into voice input mode - Einwtien

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You need to process your gesture and call external intent:

 Intent intent = new Intent(RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH);

theoretically it may not be in the system, so you first need to check its availability

 PackageManager pm = getPackageManager(); List<ResolveInfo> activities = pm.queryIntentActivities( new Intent(RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH), 0); if (activities.size() == 0) //нет распознавателя //blah-blah

If there is a call to the Recognizer's startActivityForResult(intent, SPEECH_REQUEST) via startActivityForResult(intent, SPEECH_REQUEST) and in onActivityResult() received data is put into EditText :

 @Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { if (requestCode == SPEECH_REQUEST && resultCode == RESULT_OK) { //массив распознанных строк ArrayList<String> matches = data.getStringArrayListExtra( RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_RESULTS); //ложим в EditText } super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data); }

Update

Actually the answer to the question itself:

translate keyboard into voice input. Is it possible?

Alas, this is impossible. There is no such INPUT_TYPE , each implementation of the keyboard implements the voice input support itself.