Google Voice Typing not functional

[arkangel1241]

Dear Support Angels,

I have bought yesterday my new Smartphone Xperia Z1 Compact and tried many things.

It´s really nice, but I have a problem:

If I go to the Menu- Voice Dialing , it doesn´t work correctly. It shows me in German the orders which I can Say, but no order will be recognized, also not in english.

The second problem is the point: Google Voice Typing.

If i go to Settings - Language and Input - I see three Keyboards (Chinese, Xperia and Japanese).

If I go to Xperia Keyboard with the Setting Symbol the Option "Key for Google Voice Typing" is grey and I can´t activated it.

How can I uninstall the chinese and japanse Keyboard or are they important and how can I activate the "Key for Google Voice Typing" so that I can talk to my phone and it write the text and how I can get the point "Voice Dialing" working ?

Thank you very much for your help

greets Marcel

[TaraMaiden]

Please go to this page because I followed the instructions here, and it worked immediately. 

http://support.sonymobile.com/global-en/xperiasp/userguide/Entering-text-using-voice-input/

[Alnmtchl]

Finally found sure Fix! First, make sure you haven't disabled Google Search. Once you're sure of that, go to Settings/Language&Input. Tap where it says "Current Keyboard: International Keyboard - Xperia Keyboard" and then a pop-up will appear with an option that says 'Choose Keyboards', tap on that, then you will finally find the 'Google Voice Typing' switch, turn it on.
Now, when you go to Xperia Keyboard Options, the 'Google Voice Typing Key' switch will no longer be greyed out, so you can now switch it on to access voice input from the Keyboard.

[Johnny_Curry1]

Above fixes the issue. I don't know how it happened but at least it is fixed now (Xperia Z5 7.1.1)