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Speech dictation not working

I purchased the new iPad and the speech dictation will not pick work or makes any indication that it is analyzing any speech or sound for that matter. Is this something apple is in the process of working on?

iPad, iOS 5.1

Posted on Mar 29, 2012 9:01 PM

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Posted on Mar 29, 2012 9:57 PM

Did you turn it on?

Settings-general-keyboard-dictation equals on?


PS, this was entered with voice dictation.

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Speech dictation not working

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