Voice input

Talk to your robot. Scry transcribes locally and you tap send.

How to use

1. Tap the microphone icon in the chat composer (between the + and the send button).
2. The button enlarges and shows a live waveform. Speak.
3. Release / tap again to stop.
4. The transcript appears in the composer text box.
5. Edit if needed, then tap Send.

Why tap-to-send instead of auto-send

The transcript step is a quality gate. SpeechRecognizer occasionally mishears domain terms ("amcl" → "Amazon", "tf2" → "to" twice). Letting you read and edit before send is one second of friction in exchange for not chasing transcription artifacts in your conversation history.

Permissions

First tap asks for the microphone runtime permission. Android shows the standard "Allow Scry to record audio?" dialog. Deny and the mic button stays inert with a toast on subsequent taps.

You can manage this anytime under Settings → Permissions in the app, or in Android Settings → Apps → Scry → Permissions.

Where the audio goes

Voice uses Android's built-in speech recognition. On most modern phones (Pixels and Samsungs from 2022 onward) recognition runs fully on-device; on older phones it may fall back to a Google network call.

Scry doesn't send audio anywhere itself. Scry only ever sees the final text transcript, exactly as if you'd typed it.

When voice fails

Mic button is greyed out / inert

Microphone permission denied. Go to Settings → Permissions → Microphone → tap to open Android's permission page → allow.

Transcript is wildly wrong

A few things to try:

• Speak in shorter chunks — long monologues compound errors
• Pause briefly between technical terms — "ros — topic — list" transcribes better than "rostopiclist"
• Type robot/topic names instead of saying them — recognizer models are weak on terms with slashes and underscores

No transcript appears at all

Google's SpeechRecognizer service may be disabled or uninstallable on some Android variants (Huawei devices without GMS, custom ROMs). Use the keyboard instead.