May 18, 2010 Dictation not working in speech recognition. While trying to use dictation in speech recognition, no speech to text happens. Was working fine before. No changes to system, but did several different restores using a variety of dates spanning a back to Vista initial installation. Aug 16, 2012 / Mac OS X & macOS: Dictation not working; how to fix. Mac OS X & macOS: Dictation not working; how to fix. Remember that Siri isn’t the same as Dictation, but Siri does compose short messages, such as email and text messages for you. Tips for Dictation Not Working.
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- When you're signed in to your Office 365 account, turn on your microphone and make sure it works (see Microphone settings).
- Go to Home > Dictate.
- A red dot on the button and a quick sound let you know that dictation has begun.
- Start talking. As you talk, text appears on your screen.
- Speak clearly and conversationally. Insert punctuation by saying the name of the punctuation mark you want to add.
- If you make a mistake while dictating, move your cursor to the mistake and fix it with your keyboard. No need to turn off the microphone.
- When finished, select Dictate again to stop typing.
- Make sure you’re signed in to Office 365, using Edge, Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Turn on your microphone and make sure it works. If the microphone isn't working properly, check microphone settings (Control Panel in Windows or System Preferences on a Mac) or the manual that came with your microphone (see Microphone settings).
- Go to Home > Dictate.
- If it’s your first time dictating, give the browser permission to use your mic. A red dot on the button and a quick sound let you know that dictation has begun.
- Start talking. As you talk, text appears on your screen.
- Speak clearly and conversationally. Insert punctuation by saying the name of the punctuation mark you want to add.
- If you make a mistake while dictating, move your cursor to the mistake and fix it with your keyboard. No need to turn off the microphone.
- When finished, select Dictate again to stop typing.
How to add punctuation
Say the following phrases to add punctuation to your text:
- Period
- Comma
- Question mark
- Exclamation point
- Exclamation mark
- New line
- New paragraph
- Semicolon
- Colon
- Open quote
- Close quote
- Open quotes
- Close quotes
Language availability and system requirements
Dictate works with the language you have set up as your editing language in Office. Currently, supported languages are English as spoken in the United States and Canada, Chinese as spoken in the Peoples Republic of China, and Spanish as spoken in Spain and Mexico.
We are working to have Dictate available in more locales and languages: English in more locales, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
Operating system requirement: Dictate works in Windows 8.1 and later.
Dictate requires an Internet connection.
Important information about Dictate
Dictate is one of the Office Intelligent Services, bringing the power of the cloud to Office apps to help save you time and produce better results.
Your speech utterances will be sent to Microsoft to provide you with this service. For more information see, Make Office Work Smarter for You.
Nice summarised, Raju.
I did some more research on problem B. I am using an Apple Airport Extreme router with my iMac (working dictation) on Ethernet and MBP (with problem B) on Wifi. Taking the suggestion that it might be a LAN problem, I switched the connections over so that the MBP is on Ethernet and the iMac is on Wifi. No difference. Dictation continues to work on the iMac regardless of whether if its connection is through Ethernet or Wifi. Dictation continues not to work on the MBP.
I tried deleting com.apple.assistant.plist from /user/Library/Preferences, turning Dictation off and then back on again, and then rebooting the system. Still the same problem. I noticed that there is an additional file called com.apple.assistant.token.plist. On the iMac where dictation works, quick previewing this file shows a list of keys for the different languages supported. On the MBP where dictation is not working, a list of supported languages is shown, but critically, the keys are all missing. I did a Google on com.apple.assistant.token.plist and found that a similarly-named file on the iPhone that controls how the iPhone connects with Siri servers and that this file was introduced as a way to thwart people hacking Siri. I am suspecting whether if Apple may have coded some bugs inadvertently into dictation in ML to thwart dictation server hacking. This might be why my MBP is unable to generate the correct key to contact the Apple servers. Blame it on the people trying to hack Siri to work on unofficial devices! 😟 ðŸ˜
I have deleted the tokens file away to see whether if the MBP will regenerate a new working copy but this has so far proved unsuccessful. As the keys are however tied in to indivual system, copying the file from the working iMac over to the MBP doesn't help. I have spent the last few nights trying to troubleshoot this problem with no success. C'mon Apple, what happened to 'It just works' ???