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Problems with dictation

I'm currently on a 13-inch MacBook Air, early 2015; using Sierra 10.12.5. But these issues have been around for a while, even on my previous machine (which was a Mac Mini). I've just never been able to get dictation to work well, and I don't know why.

And yes, I've followed the directions on this page: Use your voice to enter text on your Mac - Apple Support. But performance is really scattershot, and it isn't getting better.

There are some words that just never get spelled right. For example, "less" always gets spelled "list". Isn't dictation supposed to learn your voice and improve over time? This is not happening.

Dictation commands mostly don't work. A few are totally reliable: "move left", "move right", "move up", and "move down". But that's about it. Most of them are very unreliable: sometimes they work, and sometimes the command is typed out instead. One of those is "Undo", ironically, which I have to use a lot! Another is "select all". Finally, very many commands just never work at all, and they never have: either the command is typed out, or it is heard but not executed (I know it's heard as a command because it appears above the microphone on the screen).

I suppose it might be relevant that my accent is perhaps unusual. I'm from NZ but I've lived in the US for almost 20 years. But I really can't believe that this would be the source of the problem.

Any help?

Gary

macOS's speech recognition does incorporate a fairly good context-sensitive algorithm. Of course it's not perfect.

It may not help at all, but try changing your Language & Region to NZ: macOS Sierra: Change the language your Mac uses.

A Kiwi's typical pronunciation of "less" certainly sounds like "liss" to me, so I can understand how "less" would be interpreted as "list". Depending on the sound immediately following it, Americans don't generally emphasize the "t" sound in "list" either, which doesn't help.

... using Sierra 10.12.5.

It certainly won't help with that particular problem, but keeping macOS up to date is a fundamental principle. macOS 10.12.6 is the latest release: Update the software on your Mac - Apple Support.

Try the steps in the article : macOS Sierra: If your Mac can’t recognize dictated text

Thanks, but none of these help. FWIW, my wife is American, and she can't get it to spell "less" correctly either! However, I think I spoke too strongly; it does in fact type "less" sometimes if the context very clearly suggests it. But otherwise, not; which is quite often.

The real big problem, though, is the commands. I wouldn't mind the errors nearly so much if I could correct them without having to use the keyboard. But I almost never can do that, because the commands usually don't work.

Already seen that and gone through it.

Try these steps also in the article : macOS Sierra: Enable, disable, and create dictation commands

If some issues are still there contact in apple support , and a product feed back could be sent to apple .

And , please wait for advice from other members .

Dictation hasn't worked for me either.

It won't work if (a) people's accents vary from its assumed accent, and "English (United States)" includes dozens of different accents, (b) people need to include personal names, place names, or technical terms, (c) people speak short phrases, or input data, or edit, or try to correct Dictation's, or (d) people live in painfully loud neighborhoods.

For me (a) and (d) are always true, (b) and (c) usually,

Dragon is better at word recognition, but it doesn't play well with other input methods-- it will go haywire--, it doesn't accept correction, it doesn't accept its own settings, and it crashes, so it also hasn't worked for me.

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