Samsung phone Gboard voice typing icon vanished

At some point of time, after some upgrades / updates, the voice-typing mic icon vanished, for the Gboard keyboard on my Samsung M34 5G phone. 

There were lots of contradictory (and perhaps out-dated) info online on how to re-enable voice-typing, but what worked for me was as follows. Gboard was already set as the default keyboard, and not Samsung keyboard in the settings. 

When Gboard was visible, the path to set this was,
the icon to show more items - 

then the Gboard settings icon,

 followed by voice-typing

and finally slide to enable "Use voice typing" as below.

Then the mic icon at the top right corner of Gboard becomes visible.