On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:12:07 -0800, jurb6006 wrote:

I don't know if this applies to you but a friend of mine said he had that
for a time and later found out it was only a free trial and then they
wantted money. He no longer has it.

Well, if I knew what had put the little offline microphone into the
default keyboard in the first place, I could look up the terms and
conditions - but I don' think it was trialware because the voice-to-text
microphone was on the phone for more than a year.

That keyboard microphone disappeared about the time I upgraded to Android 4.3.

What I've done, in the meantime, is just now I installed a dozen purported
offline voice-to-text applications.

Maybe one of those will bring the microphone back.