After iOS 6, iMessage Microphone Gray

Okay, I'ved searched everywhere and can't find an answer. After I updated to iOS 6 in iMessage ONLY, my microphone to dictate is grayed out. Siri Dictation works everywhere else (email, notes, etc) with out a problem.
Any help would be greatly appreicated.
Thanks,
Greg

Restarting the phone does get the mic button back, but it's a very poor solution. My mic is "greying-out" several times per day (10+) in many apps like gmail, facebook, week calender, etc. I don't think it has anything to do with a particular app, but with iOS because it seems to affect all apps.
What i do to get it back is double tap the home button to open the list of running apps, then close the app i'm trying to use by long pressing on its icon then "deleting" it. When i restart that app, the mic button will be enabled again.
This is also a very poor "solution" because it is impractical and does not address the root problem, it just temporarily relieves the sypmtom, but it is better than rebooting.

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