Fact · Dictation on Mac
63language variants
Apple's macOS feature availability page lists 63 language and regional variants for Dictation on the Mac.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Dictation Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (United Arab Emirates) Cantonese (China mainland) Cantonese (Hong Kong) Catalan (Spain) Croatian (Croatia) Czech (Czechia) Danish (Denmark)”
macOS Feature Availability, Apple, Apple, 2026, Dictation section (count of listed entries).
Open the original- What it measures
- Counted from the Dictation list on the page as of October 2026 (macOS 27). Regional variants are counted separately, so English alone accounts for 15 entries.
- What it does not show
- A count of variants, not distinct languages. Apple updates the list with each release.
Source
Used to calculate
- Apple's feature availability list gives Mac Dictation 63 language and regional variants and Voice Control 20, so Dictation has about 3.15 times as many.
- About 52 percent of the Mac Dictation language variants have automatic punctuation.
- About 76 percent of the Mac Dictation language variants also appear on the on-device list.
- Of the 63 language and regional variants Apple lists for Mac Dictation, 15 are not on its on-device and modeless list.
- Voice Control on the Mac covers 43 fewer language and regional variants than Dictation on the Mac.
- The Voice Control list has about 32 percent as many variants as the main Dictation list.
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