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Im experimenting with the HotWord plugin as an alternative to Autovoice.

The plugin triggers correctly when i use the trigger word but if i then attempt to use the Input Speech action, IS immediately fails with the message "No network connection in speech recognizer".

Hotword settings:
Stop listening after one word: Off
Turn off service in apps: On

Any ideas/ suggestions ?

The problem with the hotword is, it keeps running even after the detection. That will interfere with any app using microphone after the detection. Hence, you must always stop it after detection. Or better use
Hotword settings:
Stop listening after one word: On
Turn off service in apps: Off
That "stop listening" is what I requested to the dev (including to stop the toast message). If you don't enable that setting, you have to add another action Plugin to stop the hotword before the action input dialog. And then enable it back after the flow finish (or can be as soon as the input speech finish). If your flow doesn't have input speech action (or any mic related action), then you can leave this setting off.

For turn off service in apps, that is kinda like blacklist certain app. However, as I tried it, it interfere with Automagic too. Because Automagic has mic access, and hotword will pause when we are editing flow in automagic. Making it not convenient in testing the flow. I will rather make it off and then create another flow with trigger App task started/ended to blacklist certain app (stop hotword listening when opening certain app).