Fact · Languages and accents
Apple's feature availability page says that the on-device list of Dictation languages on the Mac requires a download of speech models.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Turkish (Türkiye) Vietnamese (Vietnam) Requires download of speech models.”
macOS Feature Availability, Apple, Apple, 2026, Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation.
Open the original- What it measures
- The sentence follows the list of on-device Dictation languages on Apple's macOS feature availability page. It is printed once under the whole list.
- What it does not show
- The sentence covers the whole on-device list. Apple does not say how long the download takes or how much storage it uses.