Speech to Text issues on Formuler Z11 Pro Max box

[albanyshore]

When I want to run a search on mytvonline3 (on my formuler z11 pro max box), the keyboard pops up and there is a microphone at the top. I click on the microphone but nothing happens. I can't seem to find a way to run speech to text searches, and it's so frustrating as I'm used to the smooth experience of using Apple TV for searching via speech to text. Anybody worked out how to do this, or anyone else facing this same frustrating issue?

I'm using the BT1 remote, which defo has a microphone. Google Assistant works fine, so it's not a mic issue.