Dictation not working after sleep

Hello !

Please follow the article : Use your voice to enter text on your Mac - Apple Support

make sure , there must be no back ground noise while dictating , do not speak very fast, the sentences might get typed incorrectly .

You have to download enhanced dictation it , can time to download from apple server .

Thanks !

This is happening to me and it’s so annoying. I’m on macOS Sierra and I’m using the dictation to open up Siri by saying Hey Siri. It works great for a while but then stops working after I wake up the MacBook Pro from sleep. I have to restart the laptop to get it working again. Apple, please fix this bug.

Could you give a step by step on how to do this? Thanks.

I use enhanced dictation. When I am done with dictation, I deliberately quit it. My Mac is shutdown every single day at bedtime. With OS X 10.11.4, and OS X 10.11.5, I have no issues with dictation, other than its misunderstanding words at times. Dictation is not ready to receive your speech until the three pulsing dots stop, and a voice-responsive microphone icon is present. I never have any error messages, or that Console log entry that you offered.

Please open the Dictation & Speech pane in System Preferences, select the Dictation tab, and disable dictation. Also disable enhanced dictation, if it's enabled.

Then enable dictation again. Log out or restart the computer. If dictation now works, you can try enabling enhanced dictation.

Sometimes enhanced dictation may work when plain dictation fails, because it doesn't depend on a connection to Apple's servers to recognize speech.

I just found a work around for this. If you’re trying to use dictation and it doesn’t work, just press the fn key twice to manually initiate it. You’ll get a little mic icon at the bottom right of your screen. You can then close that icon and dictation works flawless again. I guess this needs to be done after every wake up that the dictation doesn’t work, but it’s better than restarting your Mac all the time.

Here's another approach that seems to work well when you notice Enhanced Dictation has stopped listening after waking your system. Paste the following command into Terminal and press return:

killall -9 DictationIM com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.speechrecognitiond com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.brokerd

This will force quit the Dictation UI and the low-level speech recognition processes. If you have keyword mode enabled, you should see the microphone menu bar icon disappear and then re-appear and after a few seconds be ready to listen once again.

Manually Open Siri from toolbar and Say, "Open Dictation". This needs to be done only once after each time mac wakes from sleep. Thereafter Hey Siri works fine for that session. No need to restart the Mac.

Yea couldn't figure out sleepwatcher but I took the terminal command and made it into a plain text file in the Text Editor app and placed it in my home folder so when I open terminal all I have to type is ./siri.txt and it reboots the dictation.

Nevermind that only worked for a little bit. Now it won’t recognize my voice even if I hit the fn key twice. You have to restart your computer.

Yes. Just upgraded to Sierra and I'm having the issue where dictation stops working after putting the computer to sleep. Please!! Apple can you fix this?

Thanks. Works great. I took it a step further and installed sleepwatcher to run the command every time the computer wakes up from sleeping.