Q: Can't enable Dictation (Greyed out)
System Preferences -> Dictation & Speech -> Dictation tab
All the settings are greyed out:
On/Off, Shortcut, Language, About Dictation and Privacy...
...so I can't enable dictation.
Anyone else have this?
Input is set to Internal microphone -- the mic is working fine as the icon indicates the input level changing when there's noise.
Odd...
Posted on Jul 26, 2012 1:32 PM
OK I fixed it.
I had to:
1) create a new temporary admin account.
2) reboot, login as new temp admin account.
3) change my normal admin account to non-admin account.
4) disable parental controls on my now non-admin account.
5) change my normal account back to an admin account.
6) reboot, login as normal admin account.
7) delete temporary admin account.
8) ENABLE DICTATION - Yay - It worked!
Posted on Jul 26, 2012 4:06 PM




