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[Q] Google Now Hotword Detection Not Working - RESOLVED

It used to be that when I opened Google Now, the search bar would say "Say 'Google' to Search". But now that option has gone away. I checked my settings and hotword detection is on, so it should be working. I have tried just saying "google" but that didn't work. I tried reverting back to an older verion of the google searchapp, but that didn't solve the problem. I'm running CM10.1 Jan 25 Nightly. It was working a week ago when I was still running CM10.1, so it may just be that something about the newer versions of CM10.1 aren't working. I've tried reinstalling the app from the play store, but that didn't fix it either, and I'm out of ideas.

a.child said:
It used to be that when I opened Google Now, the search bar would say "Say 'Google' to Search". But now that option has gone away. I checked my settings and hotword detection is on, so it should be working. I have tried just saying "google" but that didn't work. I tried reverting back to an older verion of the google searchapp, but that didn't solve the problem. I'm running CM10.1 Jan 25 Nightly. It was working a week ago when I was still running CM10.1, so it may just be that something about the newer versions of CM10.1 aren't working. I've tried reinstalling the app from the play store, but that didn't fix it either, and I'm out of ideas.
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is speech recognition in general working for you?

korgmotif said:
is speech recognition in general working for you?
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Yes, if I press the mic button, it picks up everything I say just fine.

What was done to fix this? I am having the same issue.
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CAYCE_VII said:
What was done to fix this? I am having the same issue.
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The issue for me was using the voice notify app. I contacted the developer and this is what I got
"I was able to reproduce the issue and have narrowed
it down to the Accessibility feedback type for VN being set to 'spoken'. With
that, it's kind of obvious that Google Now is designed not to listen for
"Google" when an accessibility service might be speaking.
I tried to work around it by setting the feedback type to generic and only
setting it to spoken while VN speaks, but it prevented VN from speaking at all.
That said, I don't believe there is anything I can do. Probably for the best
since it's usually not a good idea to circumvent design."
So if you're not using voice notify, i'm guessing it's some other accessibility app that's screwing it up. It's very annoying.

I think the hotword also only works if your language is set to English (US). My phone is set to English (UK) and "Google" doesn't work.

on my Nexus 7 the hotword detection has never worked and I cannot figure it out.

Not working for me currently, not sure why.

Set the language to english US. After setting this, for me it's working

Travel_Mate said:
Set the language to english US. After setting this, for me it's working
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I already have that setting.

Not using CM right this second, but I had this problem today. One of the keyboard/input options was "Google voice typing". When I turned that OFF, Hotword detection started working again. Just an idea.

I'm on 4.2.2 CM10.1 on S2 (i9100).
It worked like a charm, but few days back I've noticed, that despite the fact that I have the feature turned on, I am using US English, my voice recognition works perfect, it doesn't work.
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Android settings
-> Language & Input -> Selection notification: Off is what helped me to solve the problem

Re-check it.
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I had this issue as well.
In order to make it work again:
1. Turn on Google voice typing in the keyboard setting
2. go to Google Now setting and then Voice
3. Set the language to English... and choose english (US)
You should be getting hotword recognition now.

I had this same issue and this is what I did to fix it:
In Google Now go to
Settings>Voice>Download offline speech recognition>under ALL tab select English (US)
Enjoy your Hotword detection once again! :good:

Cygnusis-X1 said:
I had this same issue and this is what I did to fix it:
In Google Now go to
Settings>Voice>Download offline speech recognition>under ALL tab select English (US)
Enjoy your Hotword detection once again! :good:
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This worked for me. Thanks.

Deenybird said:
This worked for me. Thanks.
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No problem, anytime.

Cygnusis-X1 said:
I had this same issue and this is what I did to fix it:
In Google Now go to
Settings>Voice>Download offline speech recognition>under ALL tab select English (US)
Enjoy your Hotword detection once again! :good:
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Also worked for me after trying about four *other* suggestions. Thank you!

shemantis said:
Also worked for me after trying about four *other* suggestions. Thank you!
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No problem. Now tell Google to do a barrel roll.

I've tried everything that's mentioned in this thread but Google Now still doesn't work by saying 'Google' I have to keep pressing the mic. Any other solution?

Google Now And S-Voice

Today I found out that S-voice and Google Now are linked together on the Note 4. When I turned off S-voice. I couldn't do a voice search with Google now, nothing happen. So I went into Google now settings and saw that the check boxes was unchecked. I tried to recheck them; but it would let me. So I thought about it for a minute. Then I remembered I had turned off S voice. So I turned S voice back on. Sure enough , it was the cause for Google Now not working. They are now linked. One wont work with out the other.

Yea, I'm coming from the Moto X and was excited when I heard the Note 4 has that always listening capability. However, in my couple of days with it, I've found it to be very finicky and just not working when I actually need it to. When I'm testing after a reboot or changing settings, it works fine. Seems like once the phone goes into deep sleep or something it stops listening, but it is intermittent.
Are you saying that I have to turn both Google Now and S Voice on and set them both to always listening for them to work? So I'd use "Hi Galaxy" to launch S Voice and "OK Google" to launch Google Now? I'll try that and see if that makes it work more consistently.

ra990 said:
Yea, I'm coming from the Moto X and was excited when I heard the Note 4 has that always listening capability. However, in my couple of days with it, I've found it to be very finicky and just not working when I actually need it to. When I'm testing after a reboot or changing settings, it works fine. Seems like once the phone goes into deep sleep or something it stops listening, but it is intermittent.
Are you saying that I have to turn both Google Now and S Voice on and set them both to always listening for them to work? So I'd use "Hi Galaxy" to launch S Voice and "OK Google" to launch Google Now? I'll try that and see if that makes it work more consistently.
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They will still work independently; But if you go in to applications settings to turn off S-voice; Google Now voice wont work. I personally don't like S voice. I rather use Google Now voice search.

I'm also having a problem where saying "OK Google" when the screen is off will launch Google Now (I can hear the familiar beeps) but the screen doesn't turn on. S-voice seems to turn the screen on always when it works.

ra990 said:
I'm also having a problem where saying "OK Google" when the screen is off will launch Google Now (I can hear the familiar beeps) but the screen doesn't turn on. S-voice seems to turn the screen on always when it works.
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My Google Now works fine. In the Google now settings' it has two check boxes. One for always on and one for when locked. Do you have both of those checked? By checking both of those will allow you to activate it when the screen is locked.

Yes, I have both selected. I think it has to do with the DynamicNotification app I've installed to mimic Moto X's Active Display notifications. It messes with Google Now's ability to turn the screen on.

I have also noticed it doesn't work after a deep sleep or something. Very discouraging when your friend sees you yelling OK GOOGLE at your phone lol.
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I am not a fan of S Voice. In the S Voice settings I have unchecked "open via the home key" and turned "voice wake up" off.
In the Google Now Voice settings, I checked "always on" in the "ok Google detection" section.
S Voice doesn't get in my way. I may have to retrain Google now, it keeps opening anytime I say ok anything lol!
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ra990 said:
Yes, I have both selected. I think it has to do with the DynamicNotification app I've installed to mimic Moto X's Active Display notifications. It messes with Google Now's ability to turn the screen on.
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Please let that not be the case! Once I get rooted I want to re-install that app! It was awesome on my Note 3.
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Trev420 said:
I have also noticed it doesn't work after a deep sleep or something. Very discouraging when your friend sees you yelling OK GOOGLE at your phone lol.
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I'm not seeing that, but I will keep testing just to make sure!
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DieHappy said:
I am not a fan of S Voice. In the S Voice settings I have unchecked "open via the home key" and turned "voice wake up" off.
In the Google Now Voice settings, I checked "always on" in the "ok Google detection" section.
S Voice doesn't get in my way. I may have to retrain Google now, it keeps opening anytime I say ok anything lol!
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I haven't even set up S-Voice, but I know it's tied to the home key by default. And we all know what that means on a Samsung phone...Lag!!!!
Interestingly enough, Poopypants revealed that the recents key also serves as a menu key if you long-press it! Theory is that double duty is where the sometimes lag in 'recent apps' comes from.

blade7840 said:
Today I found out that S-voice and Google Now are linked together on the Note 4. When I turned off S-voice. I couldn't do a voice search with Google now, nothing happen. So I went into Google now settings and saw that the check boxes was unchecked. I tried to recheck them; but it would let me. So I thought about it for a minute. Then I remembered I had turned off S voice. So I turned S voice back on. Sure enough , it was the cause for Google Now not working. They are now linked. One wont work with out the other.
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Can't be the case. I disabled S-Voice and I use Google Now ("OK Google") all day everyday.
Try re-disabling S-Voice, then clearing Google search data and set up Google Now again. I promise it works.
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I should state, however - it won't allow you to say "OK Google" when the screen is off (unless charging) without leaving S-Voice enabled. However, all other functions will work normally without S-Voice.

ingenious247 said:
Can't be the case. I disabled S-Voice and I use Google Now ("OK Google") all day everyday.
Try re-disabling S-Voice, then clearing Google search data and set up Google Now again. I promise it works.
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I should state, however - it won't allow you to say "OK Google" when the screen is off (unless charging) without leaving S-Voice enabled. However, all other functions will work normally without S-Voice.
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Okay, I'll try that.

Trev420 said:
I have also noticed it doesn't work after a deep sleep or something. Very discouraging when your friend sees you yelling OK GOOGLE at your phone lol.
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I've tested several times since yesterday and mine always responds when in deep sleep.

I hope this is related to this discussion. I have Google Now and S-Voice working, except that "Enable Voice feedback" in S-Voice is grayed out. Can someone tell me how to get that working?
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JimSmith94 said:
I hope this is related to this discussion. I have Google Now and S-Voice working, except that "Enable Voice feedback" in S-Voice is grayed out. Can someone tell me how to get that working?
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have exactly the same problem

ingenious247 said:
Can't be the case. I disabled S-Voice and I use Google Now ("OK Google") all day everyday.
Try re-disabling S-Voice, then clearing Google search data and set up Google Now again. I promise it works.
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I should state, however - it won't allow you to say "OK Google" when the screen is off (unless charging) without leaving S-Voice enabled. However, all other functions will work normally without S-Voice.
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Just tried this and it works fine. Thanks

So, I'm sure like many of you, past experience with S-Voice and it's recognition system, command sets and wanting to confirm every little command you give it has spoiled your outlook on using S-Voice....
....but I can't help but feel I might be missing something on my new phone by just disabling it right off the bat!
Has anyone even tried using it again this time around to see if it has improved? Or at least coming from a newer phone like the S5 (I'm jumping from the S4) that would indicate progress or just more of the same old crap?
Google Now really is awesome and has the absolute best voice recognition of any system I've used, but considering S-Voice is tied into touchwiz, it's got great potential for phone management commands if they get it right.
Anyone even play with it?

p()()pypants said:
So, I'm sure like many of you, past experience with S-Voice and it's recognition system, command sets and wanting to confirm every little command you give it has spoiled your outlook on using S-Voice....
....but I can't help but feel I might be missing something on my new phone by just disabling it right off the bat!
Has anyone even tried using it again this time around to see if it has improved? Or at least coming from a newer phone like the S5 (I'm jumping from the S4) that would indicate progress or just more of the same old crap?
Google Now really is awesome and has the absolute best voice recognition of any system I've used, but considering S-Voice is tied into touchwiz, it's got great potential for phone management commands if they get it right.
Anyone even play with it?
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It's much better for me. When I long press my BT headset S-Voice isn't full screen, it just beeps and doesn't wish me a good day or confirm my command. It just accurately dials the person and phone number I ask it to.
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JimSmith94 said:
It's much better for me. When I long press my BT headset S-Voice isn't full screen, it just beeps and doesn't wish me a good day or confirm my command. It just accurately dials the person and phone number I ask it to.
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That's promising.
I may give it a try.
Have you sent any text messages, launched apps or made calender notes using S-Voice yet?

p()()pypants said:
That's promising.
I may give it a try.
Have you sent any text messages, launched apps or made calender notes using S-Voice yet?
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I've made a few Google Search type searches, but mostly use it for hands free calling.
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look like someone on android central got it figured out that if you cant get ok google to work from deep sleep a rouge app is causing it to fail, in my case android wear was actually giving me issues.

Calculator talking to me

The calculator app is saying what numbers I push. It started doing it in the middle of using it. How can I turn it off?

It's just trying to be friendly! Talk back, dont be cold-hearted

Wooba99 said:
The calculator app is saying what numbers I push. It started doing it in the middle of using it. How can I turn it off?
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hi,
ok it seems its some bug ?
This is wat i did,
on device.. settings/accessibilities /Services... turn off all "Services apps that is enabled.
eg. i had under Services.. Pushbullet, Greenify, Enhanced Sms. & Caller id etc. etc enabled. I had to turn them all off. Working 100%
Good luck

I found that the settings of text-to-speech options affects the talking calculator.
I just changed the language from English to any other language, then the calculator spoke the other language.
So, if the text-to-speech is turned off, the calculator will be quite. But no idea how to turn this off...

dogbirds said:
I found that the settings of text-to-speech options affects the talking calculator.
I just changed the language from English to any other language, then the calculator spoke the other language.
So, if the text-to-speech is turned off, the calculator will be quite. But no idea how to turn this off...
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hi,
it is logical that if caculator "speaks" numbers etc. it is using a text to speech voice option. eg On my device Note 4 or my Note 3 or other, i have Samsung voice, Google voice or SVOX installed. If i disable it a lot of my apps won't work. This is not what is causing problem. (If you search around xda threads you will find thread where this solution was posted, unfortunately i did not save link at time) Try option in my post above and you will most likely see it works, but you have to turn off all apps listed in services.( The text to voice is mere a tool)
good luck

willcor said:
hi,
it is logical that if caculator "speaks" numbers etc. it is using a text to speech voice option. eg On my device Note 4 or my Note 3 or other, i have Samsung voice, Google voice or SVOX installed. If i disable it a lot of my apps won't work. This is not what is causing problem. (If you search around xda threads you will find thread where this solution was posted, unfortunately i did not save link at time) Try option in my post above and you will most likely see it works, but you have to turn off all apps listed in services.( The text to voice is mere a tool)
good luck
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I've already tried every solutions I found on internet, and none fixed it. My calculator still speaks... lol

I have this as well
It is so stupid I will have to try these fixes later

Unfortunately I cannot disable everything in the services menu as I have a pebble watch and it needs it.
I guess I'll have to get a different calculator app.

Wooba99 said:
Unfortunately I cannot disable everything in the services menu as I have a pebble watch and it needs it.
I guess I'll have to get a different calculator app.
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A user of my rom was having the same issue. So I fixed it.
Confirmed working, flash in recovery. Must be on a deodexed rom.
http://www.dynamicrom.com/misc/Calculatorfix.zip
Brian

OMG
i've been crazy lurking around for the possible solution of this stupid voice text on my calculator as well.
I had made a thread regarding this and people from here has no idea about the solution for this problem.
i went to the settings, manage apps, all and deleted google text to speech and disabale samsung text to speech.
thats the time it will stop working. BUT, once you close all your recent used apps the voice message will go back again! WTF!

after how many centuries of searching for a solution, finally!!!! the horrible voice is gone when pressing the
stock calculator. downloaded dodol launcher and used it for 3 days and uninstalled it!
voila!

bri315317 said:
A user of my rom was having the same issue. So I fixed it.
Confirmed working, flash in recovery. Must be on a deodexed rom.
http://www.dynamicrom.com/misc/Calculatorfix.zip
Brian
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Worked perfectly! Thank you so so much!

bri315317 said:
A user of my rom was having the same issue. So I fixed it.
Confirmed working, flash in recovery. Must be on a deodexed rom.
http://www.dynamicrom.com/misc/Calculatorfix.zip
Brian
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It will work on an Odexed ROM also. Just rename or delete original stock calculator apk and odex. Then flash or extract fixed calculator apk and copy to system/app and reboot! !!
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calculator sound off
Settings, system,language and input- Google voice typing
that did the trick....

ijimbov said:
Settings, system,language and input- Google voice typing
that did the trick....
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that worked! Awesome thanks

Finally figured it out on my device, it's the samsung text to speech engine causing this issue. Since I'm rooted i froze it through bloat freezer and it worked perfectly. I still have google text to speech enabled and that doesn't interefere.

Google Now search problems need advice

I have a Nexus player and after about the first week the voice search from the remote stopped working.
So what I did was I did a few reboots and cleared out some apps but that didn't help. I checked to see if there's any updates in the play store and there were not.
What I see now is that it's hit or miss on if the search even works (more misses and then hit) but more than that when I press down on the microphone button on the remote and record my question or search it keeps recording it doesn't stop.
The other thing is even if it does record it and stop it doesn't pull up any information. One of the reasons why I got the player was for android and was for the search integration right now I don't have it any help would be appreciated thank you.
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Same here. I find the search only works on the main screen (not from an app) and in order to stop recording, I need to press the middle button after I said my bit.

I'll try that tip but man what a fail. How does google create a device like this with this many flaws.
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My voice seemed to work fine until I upgraded (er... downgraded?) to M 6.0 and rooted it. Didn't test it after M and before rooting though. Now its really hit or miss.

I'm not rooted. Just installed a few apps and then it didn't work.
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Yeah same with me. Voice search worked fine for a couple weeks now nothing.
Like previously said it's like it keeps recording even though what I've said is displayed
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Found this fix which worked for me. Thanks to OzRex
forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2324215&p=45

Do you mean this? nd the mic icon keeps moving like it's detecting more voice....
Turn off automatic app updates, then go to play store and uninstall the app called Google App for Android TV. It will revert to the version shipped with the device which seems to work for me.
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It used to work when I first got it, now it understands what I'm saying but doesn't actually search
me too, I just skip straight to type search, the look ahead works really well, which is nice.
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Google now cant access microphone

So i use "ok google" a lot and have on all of my phones. But i constantly am having issues with my Nexus 6p, it will simply not work and when i press the mic button on the google search widget it tells me "cannot access microphone" a reboot fixes it or simply waiting a little bit then it will work again. It's anyone else having this problem??

Haven't seen this one personally. That sucks sorry.

I had that problem when I had cortana. It had taken priority. Prior phone though.
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dislplin01 said:
So i use "ok google" a lot and have on all of my phones. But i constantly am having issues with my Nexus 6p, it will simply not work and when i press the mic button on the google search widget it tells me "cannot access microphone" a reboot fixes it or simply waiting a little bit then it will work again. It's anyone else having this problem??
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Unless you specify what is installed on the phone, what ROM, etc.
It's difficult to help.
I would start disabling the apps I installed prior to this happening.

tech_head said:
Unless you specify what is installed on the phone, what ROM, etc.
It's difficult to help.
I would start disabling the apps I installed prior to this happening.
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Yea sorry, stock no special add ons and minimal app, facebook, instagram, ect very simple i have other phones and tablets to play i keep this guy stock for now

i have this problem too occasionally. a reboot fixes.
as someone else already mentioned, i suspect some other program is taking over the mic but i haven't figured out which one yet.
what's weird is that only okay google and the home screen search bar mic is busted when this happens. i can still use the mic to search in chrome and to do anything else (like write a text or whatever).
anyway, keeping an eye on this thread in case anyone figures out what the guilty app is.

May try going to app settings for the Google app (press and hold on it in the app drawer and drag it to app info is the fastest way)
And then go to permissions. Mic should be on. If it's not turn it on. If it is on, try turning it off then back on?
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Do any of you have Smart Lock with Trusted Voice enabled?

Same Issue
I also have this issue. My phone is non rooted. Only broken through the search widget. I was using nova launcher. Now using google launcher to see if that cures the issue. So far so good. Will now download my common used apps and see if anything breaks it. I really hope it was'nt Nova. I'll cry. I did speak to Google and they will replace the phone under warranty but I am going to test first anyways. I won't be returning my phone to google anytime soon as they want to pre authorize another charge on my credit card to ship me the device well behold I don't have enough available credit for a pre auth. Said they have no other options. So if your phone is under warranty and needs to be replaced make sure you have a good credit limit. I even offered to send them my phone before they sent me the new one but they said I cannot do that. So upset with google right now and their returns.

I had the same issue as OP, as recent as this past weekend. I was stock/normal rooted, no special launcher, no cortana. Microphone worked fine for speakerphone, but i could not use voice search on Google now on my phone, my moto watch, or android auto in my car. Weird how one issue spans three devices.
google searches yielded nothing. i deleted tons of apps and nothing. i went ahead and just flashed the whole stock rom, and it works normal now.

Check the permissions settings.

I am having the same problem as the OP. Glad to know I'm not alone.
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Reading the thread, had anyone solved this problem? I took the advice on checking the permission settings and found that all permissions are allowed except for storage and camera (or was it contacts? I don't remember exactly, both of them are lcoated closely). Anyhow, I decided to just allow all permissions, walla it seemed to have solved the problem, I pressed my finger on the microphone at the back of the phone and said "ok google" and it responded. Can anyone else try to see if this works?
This new permission structure has its fair share of problems, I have plenty apps crashing because of only partial permission allowed, Skype being one of them