Going to have a look at sayboard now. I'm not after a full keyboard or anything. I just need the dictation because I use the keyboard that comes with lineage or graphene, which I believe is just the AOSP keyboard.

Edit: okay i am giving it a try so far it seems like it works well enough but i definitely wish it had a tone to let you know that the recording had started. It also appears to not work every time like it should. Also i don't seem to be able to find a space bar in order to dictate a new sentence once i'm done with one which is somewhat irritating