That seems orthogonal to this anyway. If they wanted to tap into what you're saying, why not just upload the text? It's both smaller and more useful. And more g

That seems orthogonal to this anyway. If they wanted to tap into what you're saying, why not just upload the text? It's both smaller and more useful. And more general because you get the data regardless of how the user chose to input it. And if you're uploading the text, then it doesn't really matter where the speech to text translation happens.