Dictation not responding on MacBook Pro

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.

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.

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.

I was in the same boat that you were. I had made all of the necessary changes. I am running an MXL condenser microphone into an ADA8000 ADAT expansion interface into my RME Digi Face USB.

So here I am running, probably a slightly more complicated signal chain than most people, which is why for a few moments I was guessing that I was going to have to get a dedicated USB driven microphone only for being able to do dictations.

Because even though I could see signal metering in the "Sound" settings window in the System Settings, I was not able to get the dictate function to work at all. Probably spent about two hours trying to track down what the issue was until I came across this thread, and I read the comment where the dude said that all he had to do was actually restart the computer after he made all of the setting changes that he needed to make. I am here to tell you that I did that exact same thing and voilà, I am dictating this very message!

I suppose the thing that I would add to this thread is that this was happening on a 2020 M1 chip Mac mini. So hopefully this becomes searchable for anyone who has the same issue on their Mac mini.

I, too, was having an issue where all settings were configured correctly. I'd press my keyboard shortcut for dictation (in my case, the F5 mic icon on the MacBook Air), and the microphone would show up as if it was ready to record, but then it wouldn't do anything. I turned the dictation feature on and off, which didn't help. Then I restarted my computer and it spontaneously started working without me changing any settings. It's frustrating that that was the fix, considering I must have turned my computer off since I received it in November, but for some reason, that worked. I would definitely just try the good ole restart fix.

Same issue, same computer model. I have tried SO many different things!!! I can only imagine how frustrated you are in comparison to me! I had surgery on my dominant hand, I’m a teacher I need my dictation to be working for me to do my job. Apple is making this very difficult.

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.

I have given up using Apple Dictation and use either MacWhisper or Superwhisper which works reliable and by the way is also way more accurate then Apples Dictation. In Superwhisper you can have customer dictionaries.

I was having the same problem as everyone else with the dictation not working. I tried almost everything that has been posted and nothing has worked for me. I went out to the web one more time and I came across this video that walks you through very easily how to fix this problem and now I have gone from my dictation not working to working again. I thought I might pass it along to help a new one who was in the same boat as me where clicking on and off the language didn't work for them. Hopefully it will work for you too. I'm attaching the video that I watched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y6b_YRuUpM

<< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y6b_YRuUpM >>

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.

any update to the broken dictation ?