I have a Pixel 9, Android Version 14. Often I have need to spell out dot, as in dept of transportation, and it keeps giving me a period. Even in the context of "polka dot" it output "polka." This is clearly an error with it recognizing the word "dot" to represent punctuation, but is there a way to disable this version of the punctuation?

How to make automatic punctuation marks in Google Voice Typing keyboard in 2024?

I've been using Google Voice Typing for quite some time as it's fast and convenient compared to typing on the phone keyboard. However, I speak multiple languages, and when I use the Google Voice software, if I enable different languages, the software is supposed to "auto detect" the language I speak, but it makes mistakes all the time. One way for me to get around this is to only select the language I want to speak in and deselect the other languages, but it gets tedious to do. There are a lot of languages that Google Voice Typing supports now and to search for the language I want to speak can be a bit of a pain when I need to reply to several messages in a short amount of time in different languages. My understanding is that there is no "long press" or a simple "language toggle" button for Google Voice Typing, but is there any way to set something like "favorite languages" so they can be displayed at the top so the languages are easier to find? I remember some of the older versions of Google Voice Typing would go by the keyboard language that's on, so as I switched the keyboard language, Google Voice Typing would only be picking up what I say in that language, which worked out much better for me. At the same time, I notice that when I don't have the best internet connection, it can take FOREVER for the Google Voice Typing to work. If I go offline (airplane mode, turn off data, etc.) then it works great because Google Voice Typing goes to offline mode. Is there any way to force the phone to always be in offline mode for Google Voice Typing? Since we can download each diction library offline already, I would hope there's a way or some kind of code that can force the software to use the offline library rather than trying to connect to the server every time.

I have been a fan of Google Voice Typing for a long time. I use it for 2 languages, English and Italian. On the Android Keyboard, I can switch the language of the spell-checker by pressing the "World" icon. Until a few months ago, that would also change the language of Google Voice Typing, i.e. when I pressed the microphone icon and started speaking, Google Voice Typing would interpret my words in the language I had selected on the keyboard. Right now instead, Google Voice Typing got "smarter" and doesn't care about my keyboard setting, it just automatically detects the language I'm speaking. Of course, it gets it wrong most of the time, and that is very frustrating, in particular because when I speak Italian (my mother tongue), it often thinks I am speaking English instead. So, does anybody know if I can disable this automatic language detection and revert to the old behavior? Or do you have any suggestions on a workaround?