Set Up Enhanced Dictation First, you’ll need to enable the Dictation feature. Click the Apple menu at the top of your screen and select System Preferences. Click the Dictation & Speech icon in the System Preferences pane and ensure Dictation is set to On. Enable the Enhanced Dictation option and your Mac will download the appropriate dictionary from Apple’s servers. It will then be able to interpret your voice offline. If you don’t enable Enhanced Dictation, your speech will be sent to Apple’s servers an interpreted there. You’re also free to customize your dictation shortcut and which microphone dictation uses from here.

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The purple microphone will light up as you speak if your Mac can hear you. Using Voice Dictation To use voice dictation in an application on your Mac, first select a text field in an application. Next, press the Fn (Function) key twice or click the Edit menu and select Start Dictation.

Speak to your Mac and the words you speak will start appearing in the text field. If you’ve set up Enhanced Dictation, they’ll appear immediately. If you haven’t, you’ll have to click Done or press the fn key again and your voice will be sent to Apple’s servers, where it’s interpreted and the text is filled into your application. You can only speak for up to 30 seconds each time if you haven’t set up Enhanced Dictation.

The purple indicator on the microphone should move as you speak. If it doesn’t, your Mac can’t hear you.

You’ll need to reposition your microphone or configure which microphone is used from the Dictation pane. When you’re done dictating, tap the fn key again or click Done to make your Mac stop listening to you.

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