Is there any fix or work around for this year old dictation bug that messes up Photoshop??

Other than disabling it?

Details here https://forums.adobe.com/message/5835501

Encounted a very major bug today that I need to figure out how to get around asap as it's completely preventing me from doing any work. 😢

Whenever I edit any text - be it editing an existing text layer, or with a new one, whatever text is there just randomly and without warning disappears. Doesn't matter wether I'm changing the color, font, font size or any other type settings. Sometimes I just move the mouse while in editing mode and the text just vanishes.

Made a video of the bug in action. Virtual keyboard on screen so you can see that I'm not hitting any keys to make the text disappears. Today is the first day I noticed this issue and I have absolutely no idea what is causing it but it happens 99.9% of the time that I try editing any text. Latest version of Photoshop, CC, OS X etc.

http://f.cl.ly/items/2s3y0d2d1R1c2Y173Q38/photoshop-bug.mov

Please advise, I really need to get it figured out as soon as I can - as you can imagine impossible to do any sort of work without being able to type a single character. 😟

Adobe claims it's an Apple problem:

Chris Cox (Staff)

The bug is in the dictation code in MacOS. We are not ignoring the problem - but we cannot fix bugs in Apple's OS code.

So far they say all you can do is just disable diction: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/cs5_text_deleted_upon_sele cting_after_updated_to_os_10_9