I am unable to get my dictation function to work.
I have followed the instructions for set up. When I try it, the mircophone icon clearly is responding to my voice, but no dictation appears in any of my programs, eg. Word.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
MacBook Air
You must click on the application to make it front-most before your dictation will appear in it. It also has to be an application that is compatible with dictation. LibreOffice Writer (6.2.4), for example, is extremely slow to respond to dictated text and I would not recommend it for use with dictation.
Thanks.
By front-most, I assume you mean open on the desktop and working on it. That hasn't helped. I am using Microsoft Word. Is there something to enable there?
Joe Hagan
Yes, by frontmost, I mean that you have clicked in the Word document for focus, and what you speak ought to be deposited into Word. Nothing to my knowledge that you need to set in Word, or any other application that can receive dictation results.
Presumeably, you are using Enhanced Dictation so that you are not vulnerable to a slow Internet round-trip to Apple's Text-to-Speech servers. If your Word document is situated on Microsoft's OneDrive cloud, that may not pass dictation results to the Word document. Uncertain of that though.
dictation function on my Macbook Air
