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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

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  • by Hunaidi,

    Hunaidi Hunaidi Jul 28, 2012 5:17 PM in response to danbasson
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    Jul 28, 2012 5:17 PM in response to danbasson

    The weird thing is that my 'quarter filled bar' was moving with me, which made it certain that I had no problem with my mic.

     

    I'm still guessing it's a bug issue from apple. Let's hope they fix it and get update soon.

     

    Still open for more suggestions!

  • by DaveJ182,

    DaveJ182 DaveJ182 Jul 28, 2012 5:30 PM in response to Hunaidi
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    Jul 28, 2012 5:30 PM in response to Hunaidi

    I have a USB mic because I have a mac mini.  The mic setting was set to "auto" and showed that it was receiving voice input but voice dictation did not work.  I switched the mic setting to directly select the USB mic and now dictation works great.  not sure if this is your situation.

  • by loyking,

    loyking loyking Jul 28, 2012 6:03 PM in response to Hunaidi
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    Jul 28, 2012 6:03 PM in response to Hunaidi

    The strange thing for me is that dictation works on my iMac but not my MacBook!

     

    I am located in Singapore and installed ML on two machines

     

    1) MacBook Pro 15 inch (Early 2011)

    2) iMac 24 inch (Early 2008)

     

    Both are set to British English for language with US keyboard layout.

     

    I have been trying to get Dictation working.

     

    On the iMac, I initially had problems getting it to work until I set the language for Dictation to English (US). No problems switching language after that. I could even dictate in Japanese and it would work flawlessly.

     

    On the MacBook, a double press of the Fn key brings up the mic. The system appears to register my voice but fails to translate (the 3 purple dots blinks and then shakes without a result).

     

    I have tried changing language settings, location/country settings, and even keyboard settings to no avail. Both machines are set to use the internal mics and I have already turned the volume of the mics up.

     

    Messing about with the Console, I found that on the MacBook Pro, there seems to be some connection issue. A copy of the log is as follows:

     

    29/07/2012 01:01:10.534     assistantd[507]     #### AVVoiceController: prepareRecordWithSettings: (IGNORING SETTINGS) ####

    29/07/2012 01:01:10.535     assistantd[507]     #### AVVoiceController: startRecording ####

    29/07/2012 01:01:10.566     assistantd[507]     Alert Listener: RUNNING = 1

    29/07/2012 01:01:10.570     assistantd[507]     #### beganRecording: (success = 1 status = 0) ####

    29/07/2012 01:01:10.857     assistantd[507]     Alert Listener: RUNNING = 0

    29/07/2012 01:01:10.858     assistantd[507]     alertFinished: AVVoice_RecordStarting done and record starting or active, so load AVVoice_RecordStopped

    29/07/2012 01:01:12.283     assistantd[507]     #### startpointDetected: ####

    29/07/2012 01:01:12.793     assistantd[507]     #### AVVoiceController: stopRecording ####

    29/07/2012 01:01:12.800     assistantd[507]     #### AVVoiceController: Recording finished (success = 1 status = 0) ####

    29/07/2012 01:01:12.800     assistantd[507]     #### AVVoiceController: playAlertSoundForType: 2 ####

    29/07/2012 01:01:12.819     assistantd[507]     Alert Listener: RUNNING = 1

    29/07/2012 01:01:12.819     assistantd[507]     alertStarted: either not playing start alert, or record state not kRecordStarting

    29/07/2012 01:01:13.237     assistantd[507]     Alert Listener: RUNNING = 0

    29/07/2012 01:01:13.238     assistantd[507]     alertFinished: AVVoice_RecordStoppedXXX done

    29/07/2012 01:01:13.238     assistantd[507]     alertFinished: not cancelling record or record state is inactive: resetting alert queue

    29/07/2012 01:01:20.588     assistantd[507]     <Error>: Session - Connection error: <ADAceConnection: 0x7f837bc44e90> Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=60 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Operation timed out"

    29/07/2012 01:01:20.596     assistantd[507]     <Error>: Daemon - Session Error Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=60 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Operation timed out"

    29/07/2012 01:01:20.603     assistantd[507]     <Error>: Daemon - Sending recognition failed Error Domain=kAFAssistantErrorDomain Code=4 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kAFAssistantErrorDomain error 4.)" UserInfo=0x7f837bc47160 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7f837cb94ac0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Operation timed out"}

     

    These messages do not appear on my iMac at all as the dictation works beautifully.

     

    Does anyone know how I can get the dictation working on my MBP?

     

    Thanks!

  • by Go vegan,

    Go vegan Go vegan Jul 28, 2012 6:40 PM in response to Hunaidi
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    Jul 28, 2012 6:40 PM in response to Hunaidi

    Im having issues with Dictation too. If i restart my imac, it works fine. If i come to my mac later in the day, and double click the fn key, i get the sound prompt but no microphone icon pops up and no text appears. Why does the dictation stop working? how to fix?

  • by Parallex33,

    Parallex33 Parallex33 Jul 29, 2012 12:12 AM in response to blakej78
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    Jul 29, 2012 12:12 AM in response to blakej78

    Press the padlock in lower left and enter your password

  • by loyking,

    loyking loyking Jul 29, 2012 2:00 AM in response to Hunaidi
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    Jul 29, 2012 2:00 AM in response to Hunaidi

    Further probing into Console messages...


    I suspect that my Macbook Pro is not connecting to the right server for Dictation. Turning on Dictation and clicking on "Enable Dictation" on the subsequent dialog results in a long pause (compared to a very short one on my iMac on which Dictation works) followed by an error message noted in Console:


    29/7/12 4:50:58.204 PM     assistantd[296]     <Error>: Daemon - Session Error Error Domain=kAFAssistantErrorDomain Code=1 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kAFAssistantErrorDomain error 1.)"


    I have tried repairing disk permissions, changing language and regional settings to no avail.


    Wondering when these bugs might be fixed

  • by adam7351,

    adam7351 adam7351 Jul 29, 2012 10:44 AM in response to Go vegan
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    Jul 29, 2012 10:44 AM in response to Go vegan

    This is the exact same problem I'm having on my macbook.

     

    If I switch dictation off, restart, then switch it on again and restart once more it will work.

     

    But if I come back to it after leaving the mac for a while it stops working, it's as if it can't connect to the server. I'm starting to suspect there is some kind of connection problem with ML after the macbook sleeps or is left idle, as Mail also loses connection after leaving it alone, just like dictation stops working. Only way I can get that working again is to completely quit out of mail and restart it.

     

    Go vegan wrote:

     

    Im having issues with Dictation too. If i restart my imac, it works fine. If i come to my mac later in the day, and double click the fn key, i get the sound prompt but no microphone icon pops up and no text appears. Why does the dictation stop working? how to fix?

  • by Matt Whiteford,

    Matt Whiteford Matt Whiteford Jul 29, 2012 10:54 AM in response to Hunaidi
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    Jul 29, 2012 10:54 AM in response to Hunaidi

    As I speak, nothing appears until AFTER I click "DONE".  Then, the entire text appears.  Could make for some very embarrassing responses!

  • by reacher1,

    reacher1 reacher1 Jul 29, 2012 11:22 AM in response to Matt Whiteford
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    Jul 29, 2012 11:22 AM in response to Matt Whiteford

    Matt:  I too was having an issue with this "DONE"  delay, but you can edit the message before sending it. You should proofread the message anyway, but I must admit sometimes I don't.

  • by travel999,

    travel999 travel999 Jul 29, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Hunaidi
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    Jul 29, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Hunaidi

    I spoke with Apple today and found out something very interesting.

    Dictation will work only when you are connected to the Internet. If your broadband is shut off it will

    Not work. 

     

    OS X Mountain Lion - Technical Specifications

    http://support.apple.com/kb/SP654?viewlocale=en_US

     

    If you want to use it offline you will need to purchase the dragon type application.

  • by Parallex33,

    Parallex33 Parallex33 Jul 29, 2012 1:09 PM in response to travel999
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    Jul 29, 2012 1:09 PM in response to travel999

    You know, I almost said that earlier "you are connected to the Internet arent you?", but thought it was obvious... Is that really the cause of some of these reports?

  • by Dominik Reinmund,

    Dominik Reinmund Dominik Reinmund Jul 29, 2012 5:22 PM in response to Hunaidi
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    Jul 29, 2012 5:22 PM in response to Hunaidi

    The culprit for me is 1Password (3.8.20).

     

    After quitting 1Password, Dictation suddenly started working for the first time.

    When restarting 1Password, and Dictation would sometimes continue to work for a short while, sometimes stop immediately.

     

    Quitting 1PW will make Dictation work ASAP 100% of the time.

  • by Raju K,

    Raju K Raju K Jul 29, 2012 7:35 PM in response to Dominik Reinmund
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    Jul 29, 2012 7:35 PM in response to Dominik Reinmund

    I dont have 1Password and my internet is working just fine.

  • by cgDesign,

    cgDesign cgDesign Jul 29, 2012 8:44 PM in response to theo7777
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    Jul 29, 2012 8:44 PM in response to theo7777

    I somehow did not see the input dropdown on the left side underneath the microphone. It was simply not selected on the proper input device. Thanks for pointing that out.

  • by danbasson,

    danbasson danbasson Jul 29, 2012 10:00 PM in response to Hunaidi
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    Jul 29, 2012 10:00 PM in response to Hunaidi

    Does any apple staff actually come on these message boards at all?

     

    Still no go on the dictation and the input levels.

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