Dictation on MacBook just doesn't work

Absolutely!! I noticed the same thing after using my AirPods

RESTART!

Have the same issue... fix it every time by restarting... this is feeling more of a windows comp... annoying... but it works.

Here's a workaround.

Change your system language to other than US English. In my case, from US English to Korean and NZ English. Now it works fine!

Hope it works for you.

Hello.

Sorry but No not yet. My 2024 "16"

M2 Macbook Pro is still at the Apple certified repair center they are still trying with no luck and no success even with help from Apple getting involved.

I'm just going to pick it up as is.

I'm very Sorry i'm unable to help You all.

I guess we have to wait until Apple releases ab update that resolves this issue.

I’m sorry to hear yours is not working, mine worked fluently whenever I did what I read. Which was, go to dictation, and then click off of click on English onto some other language and hit apply, close it, and then go back in dictation, click on English, and then hit apply. When activating the dictation, you have to double click your function “fn” button. My little mic at the top of my keyboard does not work with dictation, but the old way, double clicking, works!

Hi, I was having the same issue with my MacBook Pro 13-inch, M1, 2020, and I found out that every time I was using dictation and switching to either Safari on privacy mode or Opera using VPN, dictation will stop responding, the only workaround that I found in my case was to go to settings search for Dictation and toggle the switch on and off. I left the setting window open. If Dictation stop responding I will do the same thing again toggle the dictation switch on and off. It is an annoying solution but so far is working.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news for you with the help of Apple. My dictation is working now first of all open up the application that you wish to use dictation on and go to the top of your menu bar and press edit and then clicking edit one time will initiate dictat, and then start by pressing the key wants briefly not holding it down and that initiates dictation it works for Google, Facebook iMessages, and everywhere else let me say this again to you you initiate dictation by going to the top of the screen and pressing edit when you're on the application or screen where you wish to use d that initiates and then moving forward, you just press the key one time briefly do not hold it down. I would like everyone that's having an issue with dictation to this. Give me some feedback to let me know if I was helpful to you and resolving this because it finally fixed my problem after six months and multiple calls to Apple, please give me some feedback and let me know this work for you guys and gals please

I forgot to mention to you guys when you want to use dictation be in the application you want to use Dictation on or the website that you want to use Dictation with and press edit and then scroll down to start dictation and then begin speaking. Make sure you go to edit when you're in the app or the website that requires dictation press edit, and then scroll down to start dictation. I'm sorry I wasn't clear about this on my last post five minutes ago in order for Dictation to work. You gotta be in the application you want to use dictation on the website that requires dictation on go to edit scroll down to start dictation and press it and make sure when you start dictation do not hold it down hold down the key for a second and then let off of it and begin to speak if this will help you give me some feedback and let me know if you this fixed my problem. Again go to iMessages or the website you want to use dictation on go to edit scroll down start dictation to initiate it and then press the hot key for a second and let go and start speaking and it will work. Give me some feedback people let me know if this works for you. It works for me finally after six months and not having it. here I'm typing here using voice dictation with my voice not my fingers.

Step one#1 open up the application you want to use dictation on

Step#2 press edit

Step#3 scroll down to start dictation.

Step#4 press the heart key to begin speaking.

Once you initiate this it should continue working. You do not have to go through this every time you want to use Dictation it's already activated doing it once.

Give me some feedback. Let me know if this works for you like it did for me.

I have tried to duplicate your procedure but still having no luck getting this to work. What is the heart key? I have something that looks like a microphone, but no heart.

I tried spanish and german and other languages per other comments and turning off english. Now it refuses to allow me to turn off spanish regardless of whether I turn off dictation or even restart machine. Arrghhhhhhh!

I found a solution! I just started using voice control under accessibility. It seems to do a pretty good job with dictation! As far as I can tell it's free and included with macos. I'll just use this instead of the voice dictation.

If you’re having issues with diction, try this quick fix that worked for me:

1. Open Terminal.

2. Run:

killall corespeechd

This stops and restarts the corespeechd process, which immediately resolved my problem. Give it a shot if you’re facing similar issues!

Let me tell you what I did to get mine to work. I am running OS 15.1 and I would bet my bottom dollar that Apple Intelligence is the culprit in this whole thread for those with an M1 computer running Sequoia 15.1

I could not uncheck the box for English US under language for dictation. It would just recheck itself. So I changed the language and region to the United Kingdom. I restarted my computer, and then I had to tweak things like the first day of the week, date format, number format, et cetera to match the United States. My only problem is that you cannot change the currency to the US dollar. You can find language and regions under the general setting.

That's not only made dictation start working but also Siri which was not working for me using Apple Intelligence. But since AI is not available in the UK it does not apply to my computer now. And yes I tried turning it off before but it still would not let me uncheck the US language under Dictation. I will try resetting it back to US when they finally do another update. There's a reason they say Apple Intelligence is beta on the MacBook pro.

But the fact that I got dictation back is worth anything and everything. In fact I wrote this entire post using dictation. Good luck on finding the cure for yours.

hi any update? still dealing w this issue w macbook pro m1 16inch

Hello unfortunately this didid not work for Myself.Thank you for the tip,I'm glad it worked for you.

Changing the language settings to UK British has worked for me good luck I know how annoying this is