Can anyone get the dictation feature of Mac OS Catalina (Voice Control) to dictate into OneNote? Mine just sits there and does nothing. I can dictate in other apps but not that one and a web search right now appears to come up with nothing about this. Anyone have a solution they can share? Thanks in advance.
Those are commands found with Voice Control, but Dictation is controlled in Keyboard preferences. This is what you use to dictate text in documents such as this particular message editor. Enhanced dictation was removed in Catalina. The explanation seems to be a complete reliance on Apple servers to handle everything rather than a set of dictation commands and/or controls on the local computer. Having Voice Control for command and control of the computer and its applications is used together with Dictation in order to provide the capabilities of command/control of the computer with dictation for entering text into documents.
In reality Dictation was much better in Mojave than it is in Catalina. Worse is that Dragon Dictate worked in Mojave but does not work with Catalina, and it never will because Dragon has abandoned it.
If you wish to dictate text in OneNote, then I suggest you try turning on Dictation in Keyboard preferences.
If you read the sentence at the top of the Voice Control preferences panel it says, "Voice Control allows you to edit text and interact with your computer by speaking to it." If you look at the bottom of the panel there are two buttons - Commands... and Vocabulary.... The first displays a list of commands that may be used to control the computer and software. There is no actual dictation command nor an ability to enter text into a document. You can, however, add to the vocabulary, although, I don't know if you add words and phrases or if you just add more commands.
The help file shows this:
Commands
Vocabulary
Thank you, it appears that the old dictation function is still there! I was hoping that the new one which appears to be more robust, included in Voice Control is different however so I was wondering if anyone has more information on the differences between these two. In the document outlining Voice Control in Catalina, it clearly has a dictation component and that feature has more commands, editable dictionary, and doesn't time out. I will however use the old dictation feature until someone figures out how to make it work in more places--particularly OneNote. Please let me know if you have further information to add.
There are plenty of people on YouTube who show how this feature in Catalina has enhanced dictation--meaning features akin to Dragon Dictate, and designed to have features that match this. There are commands related to the dictation feature as shown here.
In the most recent keynote from Apple when they explained the features of Catalina, they talk about dictation.
This post is not about whether Apple supports enhanced dictation in Catalina but rather what it takes to support dictation support in OneNote and why it doesn't work there. If anyone has a solution for this, that's what I'm looking for.
Voice Control is not Dictation. You can enable Dictation in Keyboard preferences. You cannot use Voice Control and Dictation together. Whichever is active will deactivate the other.
I cannot get Catalina Voice Control to dictate in Microsoft OneNote. Can anyone get it to work?
