Holding touchpad does nothing for me. No in-game chat? [PS4]

Setting your Playstation to English in the settings fixes this, but not quite. When you switch your Playstation to English and restart Apex you can choose accessibility settings in the main menu. Form here you can enable chat, but not without a really annoying catch... Everything you type is being read by an AI voice. Can't figure out how to get of it and just chat normally.