The floating button on Android

Turning it on

1. 1
   Open the app and find Floating button
   Read what it asks for and choose Agree and continue. The button works through Android’s accessibility service.
2. 2
   Turn on SayFeather in Accessibility
   Choose Turn on in Accessibility and switch SayFeather on.
3. 3
   If Android blocks it
   For an app installed from a file, Android 13 and newer block this as a Restricted setting. Open App info for SayFeather, tap the three dots at the top right and choose Allow restricted settings, then try again. The app walks you through it.

Using it

The button appears when another app’s keyboard is open on a text field. Tap to start, tap again to stop. The text goes into the field you started in; if that field is gone, the text is on the clipboard instead. Drag the button anywhere: each app remembers its own place. A slider sets how visible it is, and you can hide it with Show the floating button.

With SayFeather’s own keyboard active the button stays hidden, because that keyboard has the microphone already.

What it can see

SayFeather only looks at which text field is focused, whether a keyboard is open, and that one field and the cursor position, to put your dictation there. It never stores or sends what is in the field. It does not work in password fields.

The dictation is put into the field by pasting, so it stays on your clipboard afterwards.