

So applied this and subsequently managed to access "Settings > Google > Settings for Google Apps > Search, Assistant & Voice > Voice > Offline Speech Recognition". But as mentioned, Google App was disabled on the phone and so I could not access Google in Settings Sometime soon after the afore-mentioned Speech Services by Google update I received a notification sound and saw the scrolling download icon in noifications for an English (UK) update.Ĭouldn't work out what was the cause / what to do, so googled and found this thread.įrom this thread I deduced that it was to do with the Google App. I'm not sure if that is normal practice or not). With hindsight it might seem a bit odd that an update was being offered for a disabled app (i.e. The problem first manifested itself after I downloaded an update (via Google Play Store) for "Speech Services by Google" (which it announced as a renamed and updated version of Google Text To Speech Engine). My situation may have been slightly different in that the Google App was disabled in settings (I disabled it when I bought the phone). My phone is a Samung A20e and I'm in UK and using English (UK) As others have noted, the Speech Services have their own settings for controlling auto updates.
