Is Grok’s speech to text feature seriously broken or is Google messing with them?

On my two Android phones, I prefer to speak what I want to say, and just let the speech to text feature convert it. It works great on Perplexity, Gemini, GPT and Claude, but horribly on Grok. On both phones it basically cuts out before converting the entire phrase. It just stops working. This happens over and over again.

Ever since Grok informed me that the matchup in performance among top models within months of each other isn't merely a coincidence, but the result of IP espionage and poaching, I've wondered if these top AI developers mess with each other in other ways too.

Since Google runs the default speech to text engine on my two Android phones, I began to suspect that they were maybe doing something to intentionally break Grok's functionality. If yes, in my case the sabotage works really well. Because of this I always go first to Perplexity, (even though I appreciate Grok's greater honesty on most matters) and then copy and paste the prompt into Grok. Naturally, I'd rather just use Grok as my first choice AI.

So my question is, are other people having the same problem, and is there something nefarious happening behind the scenes here? If there is, I hope calling it out like this will lead to a fast fix.