Dictation in mail app not working

Function key 6 aka. Fn 6 Activates voice input and dictation everywhere but not in Mac Mail. Notes and Thunderbird allow me dictate input text but not Mail. After a restart it may work once but not after that.


On the Edit menu Fn D is listed as the start dictation option. This worked for me indicating that all the other speech to text infrastructure is working.


Turns out this was a Function key shortcut conflict Fn 6 is listed as the bring floating window to the front shortcut ( according to google look up ). Using Fn D seems to be the answer in Mail ?


Question is how to change the Function key shortcuts in Mail to have Fn 6 start diction.

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Posted on Mar 21, 2025 3:48 AM

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