This voice input issue is especially frustrating because there’s no feedback at all.
Some people here mention wasting hours on this, and I get why. The UI never tells you what’s happening. There’s no error, no message, nothing to explain whether it heard anything or not.
All you see is a looping recording animation. It plays whether audio is actually captured or completely ignored. When it fails, it looks exactly the same as when it works.
So you just keep trying, assuming it’s your setup, when in reality you have no idea what state the feature is in. That’s what wastes time. This isn’t technical issue.