Samsung Galaxy S4 Microphone icon mising?

[Sean R]

I have had my phone for like 8 days and all is good. Something happened. Either an update or I pressed something and now my little microphone icon is missing from my keypad. I press and hold that button to see if it shows up but everything else shows up in options but a microphone. I have goggled this problem and tried all solutions I could find. Even downloaded the Google keyboard app and it doesn't even have a microphone option.
I was able to fix this on my own. After thinking, I looked under application manager in settings and slid over to the disabled apps. Google Search was disabled and since Google text / speech options are built in, this was most likely the cause. I clicked it, turned it on and now the icon is back. WOOT!