How to enable Enhanced Dictation on Mac OS X

Description: This technical article shows how to turn on Dictation and enable Enhanced Dictation on Mac OS X. Enhanced Dictation allows offline use and continuous dictation.

  1. Click and open System Preferences from the dock.
    system preferences
  2. Click and open Dictation & Speech.
    dictation and speech
  3. Click button for On to turn dictation on and then click Enable Dictation.
    dictation on off enable dictation
  4. With dictation enabled, put a check in box to Use Enhanced Dictation. This will download Enhanced Dictation which is about 785 MB in size.
    downloading enhanced dictation

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