Fact · Languages and accents
Apple's on-device Dictation list for the Mac includes German (Switzerland) and French (Switzerland).
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Finnish (Finland) French (Belgium) French (Canada) French (France) French (Switzerland) German (Austria) German (Germany) German (Switzerland)”
macOS Feature Availability, Apple, Apple, 2026, Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation.
Open the original- What it measures
- On-device Dictation needs a Mac with Apple silicon and a download of speech models.
- What it does not show
- Listed as a language and region. Apple does not publish a word error rate for either one.