Q: Dictation not working on Mountain Lion?
I enabled dictation on my mac through the System Preferences. First I tried going to notes and pressed the fn key twice, the Siri like mic appeared and I began to say simple words such us "hello" "how are you" and pressed done. The thre dots appeared for a few seconds then the 'three dots' went left to right and nothing appeared. I've tried this on notes, microsoft word, and also while typing this discussion. Any ideas?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion
Posted on Jul 25, 2012 3:27 PM
I had called the Apple Helpline a few days back and after an unsuccessful troubleshooting the problem was bumped to someone who said was from the engineering team. After another few rounds of trouble shooting he called me back and asked me to add the following DNS entries
1. 208.67.220.220 and
2. 208.67.222.222
and restart my machine. After these changes; the Dictation on my iMac is working.
PS:Previously I was having the Google DNS entries which now I have removed.
Hope this helps others.
Posted on Aug 1, 2012 9:59 AM
