Dictation not working (13.0 Ventura (22A380))

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This is simple and has so far worked a treat. Everything has taken so much longer since the Ventura update because I have had to type it all. Thank you, you may be a genius, and you are certainly. lifesaver.

I tried this solution and it worked, but only for a short time. Then Dictation failed again.

Any other ideas about why Dictation won't work? A bug perhaps.

Thanks,

Marc

MacBook Pro 16 Apple M1, 1TB

Ventura 13.0.1

Hi All,

It is only a temporary fix and your mileage will vary. Usually, I get several weeks of functionality and then have to apply it again.

This issue has been an ongoing nuisance since at least 2013.

I finally tried NeoRoth's solution, and it's worked for about three days and shows no sign of failing. I don't really miss Siri on the computer I have it on my phone and several HomePods around my place.

So thank you very much NeoRoth.

Thanks for sharing this. It worked for me as well. I am on version 13.1 and this is still an issue. There are a couple of other apps that have very similar issues where they stopped functioning for no apparent reason.

Thanks for this. But I don't know what you all think but so far the M1 chip in the new operating systems, fall, well short of reliability, consistency, and intuitive behaviour. Dictation just deciding to switch off has happened several times. Generally, I reflect back over the decades since I've been using Mac for 30 years plus in the intuitive feel is far from as good as it used to be. I'm also amazed at having lost basic functions that existed in apps like Microsoft 20 years ago. It's great to see dictation coming on board, but one effect of this is that I've lost the use of a much better dictation app that I've been using for 20 years, Dragon. They are fed up with the system changes and the difficulty of controlling on screen. Apple gives itself much better rights than it gave Dragon and one affect of that is that I can no longer teach language the way are used to.

It seems to me that the organization is much more better. To make something work you've got to go to 3 or four different places. And then you can't assume it will keep working. The controls are not intuitively organised to enable functional seats to be fixed in one place. You go to the keyboard for one thing and privacy for another thing and somewhere else for like sound for a third before it all works and maybe it's more than three.

Hi All Will Be Well,

Interestingly, I cannot not replicate the Dictation issue on our newly acquired MacBook Pro with the M1 chip. It seems to be peculiar to my Intel-based iMac, or something installed therein. I'm still working on a fix.

As far as macOS being less intuitive in recent years ... I too have been running macOS for over 30 years and agree somewhat. Mac OS X seemed to be the turning point and I think Apple's desire to meld macOS and iOS certainly has something to do with it. How do you interface touch-screen mobile devices with an already established operating system and not break a few eggs? The macOS power-users and casual iPhone/iPad owners have very different priorities. Just a thought.

great stuff thank you so much

It didn't work for long for me. There was the best for about a day with the ingenious trick of tbux and now, it malfunctions as before.

Works! Thanks.

Well, the solution that I thought was full proof just failed, trying to dictate and iMessage.

I'm running into the same problem. It seems to be when I'm using an external microphone – – USB.

The dilation of the/library/P list as described above solves the problem, at least temporarily.

I have been using this method but it only lasts for minutes - maybe 1 or 2 dictations then same issue again ...