Dictation not responding on MacBook Pro

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

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what an amazing long-winded and obtuse way to say:

try typing the Terminal command:

killall corespeechd

and it may fix the issue for the moment.

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Then he goes on to teach you how to create a shortcut for that Terminal command to invoke it "more easily".

The essence is ONE Terminal command. The rest is extraneous flourishes, unless you do in fact want to create a shortcut in a recent version of macOS and have no clue about how to do that.

This is yet another example of creating a Video that is really simple to create, but mostly a waste of pixels overall.

this worked! hold sh#t it was so easy, i just turned on the UK english and even still had reg US english and it worked then turned off UK and just US is working!!! thanks you so much.

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.

Hi LG,

I recently faced the same issue with Dictation on my MacBook and finally found a fix that worked for me.

In my case, the problem was with the microphone source. I often switch between a BLE headset and the MacBook microphone, and it seems the "automatic" selection feature doesn’t always work as expected.

Manually switching the microphone source to the MacBook Pro Microphone resolved the issue instantly.

Hope this helps some fellow MacBook Pro users!

Best,

Julien

Geeky Salesman

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.

Have a look for MacWhisper It also has a dictation feature and it actually works way better and is significantly more accurate than Apple's dictation and also seems to always work. I assigned a keyboard shortcut for the dictation feature and it pretty much works like Apple's dictation. As a matter of fact I'm using it right now and this post is completely dictated and unedited from MacWhisper.https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/discussions/420

It's funny to see how far behind Apple is with its AI features.

M4 MacbookPro Max. All software/OS latest version. Working on Dual screen, laptop Lid closed, Speakers and Mic on Bluetooth. Dictation works fine for a short period. But when mac goes to sleep and I wakes up - Dictation stays asleep! The microphone shows it is working but nothing is typing. Confirmed mic input is receiving at high volume, Confirmed all hardware working properly.

Tried all other option of adding/changing Languages. Failed.

BEST Simplest Workaround: Log off and log back on again or restart.

Thanks for the tip. Mine work sporadically checking English United States. I checked English United States, English Canada, English Australian you're right it now works like a charm.

Adding "English (UK)" fixed it immediately for me.

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.

Just some feedback and my workaround. For me, being German, speaking English with a slight accent, Apple dictation is in general very inaccurate. So with all the other issues that it starts and stops working quite frequently, I looked for other solutions and I'm now using MacWhisper. As a matter of fact, all these here is dictated with MacWhisper without any corrections. I would say it is easy 50 to 60 percent more accurate than Apple's dictation. It works everywhere and really hasn't given me any grief. You also can have custom words in the dictionary and can choose between different LLMs, for even more accuracy, mind you, the fast Large V3 Turbo already has such a high accuracy and on top of that it's also pretty fast. The models are downloaded, so all the dictation is done on your computer and not sent to the cloud. Apple really completely missed the whole AI thing, as even the implementations of Apple general AI features are subpar and can be performed way better by third-party solutions.

Thanks, this worked for me but only after closing all apps that use the mic.

to check the list of apps that have access to the Mic check the Privacy and Security section.

e.g. I had to close MS Teams, ChatGPT, ... then i ran the terminal command and it worked without needed to reboot.

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

Hey! My voice control setting was turned off. Switching it on worked for me after fussing with the switching of the languages and input devices for a bit. Turn on VOICE CONTROL! Have a great day!