Fact · Languages and accents
Apple's feature availability page lists Japanese (Japan) and Korean (Korea) under On-Device and Modeless Dictation on the Mac, a separate list from general Dictation.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Hebrew (Israel) Italian (Italy) Italian (Switzerland) Japanese (Japan) Korean (Korea) Malay (Malaysia) Mandarin Chinese (China mainland)”
macOS Feature Availability, Apple, Apple, 2026, Dictation, On-Device and Modeless Dictation table.
Open the original- What it measures
- The page has three Dictation lists: general Dictation, On-Device and Modeless Dictation, and Auto-Punctuation. Japanese and Korean appear in all three. The page says on-device languages require a download of speech models.
- What it does not show
- The page does not give a date for the list we read, and Apple changes these lists between macOS releases. Check System Settings > Keyboard on your Mac before relying on a language.