can't download the Enhanced Dictation Engine

this solution does not work for me.

I am getting the same error as per your screenshot.

I have tried the solution specified in this thread to no avail.

I have tried changing my system language to English (US) and trying to download enhanced dictation using the English (US) package - but that does not work either.

I have tried to find com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore but it does not exist on this version of OSX (OS X Sierra 10.12.3).

I have also tried to download the package from a different network, but that also failed.

Any help would be really appreciated!

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved and is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

I am having this problem with macOS 10.12.3 Sierra - and this solution does not work for me.

Is there another approach that I can take? or any information that I can post here to help diagnose the problem?

I have had the same problem since Mavericks launched. So far I have been unable to find a way to download the enhanced dictation manually.

I'm also having the same issue, but with the "English Australia" dictation engine. I've tried selecting and de-selecting options, restarting, looking for download issues for the Mavericks offline dictation engine and this appears to be the only spot on the Internet where anyone's talking about it.

Apple, please help! A manual download option would be great, or simply a working automatic download capability. :-)

Thank you!

i cant download italian voices 😟

i have the same issue! APPLE, HELP US!!!

With me i usually just get a download that finishes all 785 Mb and then the download box just dissapears. When i press the key to activate dictation the download box comes up again and tries to download all over again. I only got an error box once, the last time i tried. Please fix Apple, idk why this wasnt included in the OS download,

I am getting the exact same error. I have tried a couple times a day since installing Mavericks and never get beyond the "finding dictation download" (or whatever that exact text is) stage. Apple, please fix this so that we can use proper dictation, as we see fit to use it, on our Macs. I too don't understand why this wasn't just built into the OS install.

I just got my enhanced dictation to download - finally!

If you are having the same issue, try going to this link: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5468660?answerId=23513414022#23513414022 or just follow these instructions:

1. Go to

   ~/Library/Preferences

   ( ⇧+⌘+G )
2. Locate

   com.apple.assistant.plist

   and move it to the Trash
3. Open Dictation & Speech preference panel, disable dictation
4. Reboot
5. Re-enable Dictation & Speech.

Best of luck!

I have the same problem, and that solution didn't work for me.

For me when I select "Start Dictation" from the "Edit Menu", I get a dialog box that gives the following messages:

Finding Enhanced Dictation…

Preparing to Download

Installing Enhanced Dictation…

And then nothing.

When I select "Start Dictation", I just get the dialog again with the same messages.

Wouldn't it be nice if an Apple representative could chime in to help right about now.

I don’t have the com.apple.assistant.plist anywhere listed

Well, that fix did indeed work for me.

However, I went a step further and deleted all the "com.apple.assistant" plists. Not just the one listed in the steps above, but also the ".support" and ".token" ones before rebooting. Perhaps that will help you.

I think that I first tried downloading Enhanced Dictation right after installing Mavericks when my Mac was slowed down by Spotlight reindexing, and had to cancel the download.

My guess about what happend is that the token used to get the download was never deleted in that first attempt for some reason and therefore the subsequent attempts couldn't get passed finding the download because of an issue with the token used to authenticate being outdated but since one was there it couldn't get a new one from Apple. But that is just my educated guess.

Now I have real dictation (used to "type" this out in part) on my Mac rather than the iOS-style Siri-backed thing that wouldn't work for long chunks of speech. Thanks for the steps to fix this and I hope my additional steps here help those for whom the first set of steps fail.

Did you follow each of the instructions above?

1. Press these keys simultaneously: (shift ⇧+command⌘+G)

2. In the dialog box that appears after step 1, copy and paste the following :

~/Library/Preferences

3. Hit return/enter

4. You will be presented with a ton of files, but you should be able to find the

com.apple.assistant.plist

5. Move it to the Trash and Empty your Trash

6. Open Dictation & Speech preference panel and turn off dictation

7. Restart your computer

8. Open Dictation & Speech preference panel, turn on dictation

9. Select Enhanced Dictation

10. Download should begin and install correctly

I hope this helps.

it doesnt work 😟 thanks anyway ... just italian voices Dont work 😟