dictation is duplicating what I say

SOLVED: This simple solution worked for me. I'm running Big Sur with MacBook Air with the M1 Apple silicon.

Turn Off Key Repeat Under Keyboard Preferences.

1. Click the Apple menu, then go to System Preferences > Keyboard. 
2. Drag the slider to Off.

There is no fix for this issue, Apple refuses to fix the issue. This is not what we paid for...

How do you turn this off in settings under keyboards? I have Iphone XR - and texts and emails are being duplicated. When I go under keyboards, there is no "key repeat" and cannot find keyboard prefs??????

My dictation was working fine until I did the latest update last night. Suddenly this morning, everything I dictate is being duplicated. If someone could suggest a fix it would be very much appreciated.

I have researched this further. This article summarizes most of the recommendations:

https://appletoolbox.com/mac-os-x-dictation-not-working-how-to-fix/

There is no true fix. I have read reports dating to El Capitan: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7320594 and on iOS. The bug is also present in Catalina.

Not all users see it, it probably varies by hardware. There is probably more than one cause, but something is likely broken in a hard to fix part of macOS. Safari text boxes are the worst - almost 100% duplication for me. Restarting macOS fixes transiently.

One addition to lore: using non-USB external microphone does not help.

If you are beta testing Big Sur please submit a bug report if you see it.

this was driving me crazy too. I turned off key repeat under keyboard prefs and voila ! it fixed the prob !

For me it only happens in Safari, and only about 75% of the time. Cut a little slack to people who are seeing slightly different symptoms, OK?

I have a further problem with Dictation, which, like the duplicating, has plagued me in El Capitan, Sierra, and now High Sierra: occasionally dictation will completely stop working. When I hit function twice, the microphone icon pops up but it never shows any of the sound activity—even in other apps—and I have to either reboot or log out of my user account and log back in to make it work again.

I think I've traced the problem to the folder ~/Library/Assistants, by searching for the most recently modified files after one of these dictation crashes. One of the pictured files is corrupting itself somehow. It will take further experimentation to figure out which one, but it still might take a reboot to re-enable dictation because it might have to reload whatever cache that is. Anyway, I figure there's a good chance the duplication problem is stemming from the same folder.

And that's not even mentioning the other dictation problem where it will keep changing what it just typed, and sometimes even remove entire sentences.

I hope you get an answer to this - I, too, am having this problem, and being able to dictate my work would be *exceptionally* helpful to my efficiency (or so I think...haven't really had a chance to try bc of this VERY ANNOYING ISSUE)

I am having this same problem toI am having this same problem to and it started when I bought my new MacBook pro MacBook pro. It seems to only be an issue when I'm dictating for things on the Internet It seems to only be an issue when I'm dictating for things on the Internet

As you note, I'm seeing this in Safari, specifically dictating email in Gmail web UI. I get whole sentences or sometimes just freezes duplicated.I get whole sentences or sometimes just freezes duplicated. <-- Oh, and here too! Oddly I've seen a similar problem occasionally in Spark mail app for iOS, but that somehow resolves itself after a few days. <sigh>

Did you ever find an answer for this? I have to put notes on my work phone and then put the same notes in here, so it's just easier to have it all dictated, but THIS turns into quite the mess when it is duplicating itself.

So playing with some of the settings in Dictation and the keyboard settings I found out that if you turn off advance dictation under the dictation tab and also slow down the repeat for the keyboard and keyboard in settings it seems to fix the repeating issue so maybe it's just the advanced dictation.

Are use dictation to make this whole entire reply in Safari so looks like I might've fixed the dictation duplication issue.

I hope this works for you good luck!

Thanks! I think that's a fix for some of us; alas, not all of us. Glad it worked for you!

I've had to switch to chrome for things I want to dictate (yick!) and it would be nice if Apple could fix this issue at the root for *their* browser. (Rant not directed at you, ChristinaIT! I'm just grumpy that so many of us have this issue, and for some of us, it's not really fixable...just "avoidable")

This is also happening to me on iOS 13, iPhone 11 Pro Max using voice control/dictation (voiceover is off). It is happening everywhere e.g. Safari, Messages, Notes, etc. Sometimes it will double text, sometimes it will triple text.

I haven’t been able to figure out a fix I haven't been able to figure out a fix. (This is an example of what it’s doing this is an example of what it's doingthis is an example of what it’s doing)

Thanks.

Me too. OK, so shifting to Chrome is the answer? Why should we "dictators" be required to abandon Safari? Many people have complained about this for a very long time. WHOSE is it to fix: Apple or Google (Gmail)? Do they read these conversations? Time's up.