I no longer have a microphone icon in Assist on my Android mobile phone
and can not use voice commands any more,
It was there in the first releases of 2023-1 or 2.
Don’t know companion app version of that time.
Has it been intentionally removed, and did I miss that change?
Regards,
Same here. Latest, on Pixel 6 Pro, chrome latest.
I think you need a Speech to text engine configured for the voice assistant in HA to show the microphone icon
I think it has something to do with HTTPS but I don’t think you can get this to work local system see:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/connecting-to-ha-locally-using-https
Did you try my recommendation?
Maybe you can try to open a bug report. If it is a bug it will help others
Issues · home-assistant/android · GitHub
Follow @dshokouhi 's recommendation 
we will still ask you to follow my recommendation
Re-installed whisper and now the mic is there but I only can use the English language changing it to nl and creating new assist says “no language available”
i think thats a separate known issue try to check github for existing issues
Are you referring at: Voice Assistant : Only one language (e.g. English) is listed in the Configuration language drop-down · Issue #92655 · home-assistant/core · GitHub ?
But that is on iOS.
and what would your advice be? if a user has a need, don’t just say do this. it means that if he asks it’s because he has already tried many ways. therefore I believe that the answer must be clear and aimed at helping with the steps to follow. sorry but I often find conversations where in the end they don’t solve the problem
actually no a lot of users come to threads and dont read any of the responses and skip them over just to comment they have the same issue, without a mention of what was tried. Happens to me multiple times a day