This issue may be invalid for a non-standard input method, but I thought I'd submit it anyways.
What happened: Using the speech-to-text feature of the keyboard crashed the game immediately after replacing (or appending to) whatever text was in the text box with the text I had spoken.
What I expected to happen: Using speech-to-text would either be disabled or would enter the text I had spoken and continue to allow me to enter text.
Details:
To enter text by speech, I enabled "Google voice typing" in "Language and Input" in my Samsung Galaxy S4's settings. This is a speech-to-text keyboard that is accessible through the microphone button in the bottom left of your regular QWERTY (or other format) keyboard. It works fine for me on my phone everywhere except MCPE, which it crashes every time 😞
This crash occurs whenever entering text by speech into any of:
The name of a new world
The seed of a new world
An external server name
An external server address
An external server port
Options --> player name
Message dialog
I could not identify a version for "Google Voice Typing" but it's as up-to-date as possible using my default language English (Canada). It may be part of Google Search & Now version 4.3.10.88581490. It seems to be the standard voice-to-text software on my device.
Could someone please test Siri on an iDevice?
Could someone please test this in multiplayer to see if it is user or game affecting? (play nice and don't try it on a large public server!)
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Alex, I would allow a developer to comment here before resolving this issue as Works As Intended. Crashes are typically unintended behavior.
Russell, I tested this using dictation on an iPhone 6 plus running iOS 8.2, and did not experience a crash.
Alex, I tend to agree with Pat and would like to re-open and assign the issue if this bug can be confirmed on another android device. IOS seems to be more robust or uses a different folder delimiter.
Can you please see if this crashes your mcpe too? I agree that mcpe may not support speech to text keyboards, but they should not cause the game to crash.
Reopening for fixing. This should not have been resolved in the first place, being an issue concerning MC:PE compatibility with the OS itself.
I do not think that MCPE is configured to work with voice to text this works as intended. For suggestions please use the minecraft forums