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macOS Feature Availability
Apple, Apple, 2026
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- What it is
- Apple's official list of which macOS features are available in which languages and regions. It has separate lists for Dictation, on-device and modeless Dictation, Dictation auto-punctuation, emoji dictation, Voice Control and the Apple Intelligence 'More advanced Dictation' model.
- How much weight it carries
- Primary source maintained by Apple and updated for macOS 27. It lists language and region variants rather than distinct languages, and it changes with each release, so counts are a snapshot taken on the access date.
Facts taken from this source
- Apple's macOS feature availability page lists four Spanish variants for Auto-Punctuation in Mac Dictation: Spanish (Colombia), (Mexico), (Spain) and (United States). Spanish (Chile) is not in that list.
“Spanish (Colombia) Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Spain) Spanish (United States)” (Dictation: Auto-Punctuation (feature table))
- Apple's macOS feature availability page lists five Spanish variants for On-Device and Modeless Dictation on the Mac: Spanish (Chile), (Colombia), (Mexico), (Spain) and (United States).
“Spanish (Chile) Spanish (Colombia) Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Spain) Spanish (United States)” (Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation (feature table))
- Apple's feature availability page lists Japanese (Japan) and Korean (Korea) for Auto-Punctuation in Mac Dictation, alongside Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) and Cantonese.
“Japanese (Japan) Korean (Korea) Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan)” (Dictation, Auto-Punctuation table)
- Apple's auto-punctuation list for the Mac, which adds commas and periods as you dictate, includes German (Switzerland).
“French (Belgium) French (Canada) French (France) French (Switzerland) German (Germany) German (Switzerland) Italian (Italy) Italian (Switzerland)” (Dictation: Auto-Punctuation)
- Apple's Mac feature availability list for Dictation includes Arabic (Saudi Arabia) and Arabic (United Arab Emirates).
“Dictation Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (United Arab Emirates)” (Dictation list on the Mac feature availability page)
- Apple's main Dictation list for the Mac includes Dutch (Belgium) and Dutch (Netherlands).
“Danish (Denmark) Dutch (Belgium) Dutch (Netherlands) English (Australia)” (Dictation list)
- Apple's main Dictation list for the Mac includes French (Belgium), French (Canada), French (France) and French (Switzerland), and German (Austria), German (Germany) and German (Switzerland).
“French (Belgium) French (Canada) French (France) French (Switzerland) German (Austria) German (Germany)” (Dictation list)
- Apple's Mac feature availability list for Dictation includes Hebrew (Israel).
“Greek (Greece) Hebrew (Israel) Hindi (India) Hungarian (Hungary)” (Dictation list on the Mac feature availability page)
- Apple's main Dictation list for the Mac includes Italian (Italy) and Italian (Switzerland).
“Hungarian (Hungary) Indonesian Italian (Italy) Italian (Switzerland) Japanese (Japan)” (Dictation list)
- Apple's Dictation list for the Mac includes both Portuguese (Brazil) and Portuguese (Portugal).
“Polish (Poland) Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Romanian (Romania)” (Dictation list)
- Apple's on-device Dictation list for the Mac includes German (Switzerland) and French (Switzerland).
“Finnish (Finland) French (Belgium) French (Canada) French (France) French (Switzerland) German (Austria) German (Germany) German (Switzerland)” (Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation)
- Apple's on-device Dictation list for the Mac includes Portuguese (Brazil), but not Portuguese (Portugal).
“Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) Portuguese (Brazil) Russian (Russia) Spanish (Chile)” (Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation)
- Apple's feature availability page says that the on-device list of Dictation languages on the Mac requires a download of speech models.
“Turkish (Türkiye) Vietnamese (Vietnam) Requires download of speech models.” (Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation)
- 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.
“Hebrew (Israel) Italian (Italy) Italian (Switzerland) Japanese (Japan) Korean (Korea) Malay (Malaysia) Mandarin Chinese (China mainland)” (Dictation, On-Device and Modeless Dictation table)
- Apple's auto-punctuation list for Mac Dictation names Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) and Cantonese (Taiwan) as separate entries.
“Cantonese (China mainland) Cantonese (Taiwan) Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Dutch (Belgium) Dutch (Netherlands)” (Dictation: Auto-Punctuation)
- Apple's auto-punctuation list for Mac Dictation includes 11 English language and regional variants.
“English (Australia) English (Canada) English (India) English (Indonesia) English (Malaysia) English (Philippines) English (Saudi Arabia) English (Singapore) English (United Kingdom) English (United Arab Emirates) English (United States)” (Dictation: Auto-Punctuation (count of English entries))
- Apple's macOS feature availability page lists 63 language and regional variants for Dictation on the Mac.
“Dictation Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (United Arab Emirates) Cantonese (China mainland) Cantonese (Hong Kong) Catalan (Spain) Croatian (Croatia) Czech (Czechia) Danish (Denmark)” (Dictation section (count of listed entries))
- Apple lists 33 language and regional variants in which Mac Dictation adds punctuation automatically.
“Dictation: Auto-Punctuation Cantonese (China mainland) Cantonese (Taiwan) Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Dutch (Belgium) Dutch (Netherlands)” (Dictation: Auto-Punctuation section (count of listed entries))
- Apple's Dictation list for the Mac includes 15 English language and regional variants.
“English (Australia) English (Canada) English (India) English (Indonesia) English (Ireland) English (Japan) English (Malaysia) English (New Zealand) English (Philippines) English (Saudi Arabia) English (Singapore) English (South Africa) English (United Arab Emirates) English (United Kingdom) English (United States)” (Dictation list (count of English entries))
- Apple's Dictation list for the Mac includes Mandarin Chinese (China mainland) and Mandarin (Taiwan).
“Japanese (Japan) Korean (Korea) Malay (Malaysia) Mandarin Chinese (China mainland) Mandarin (Taiwan) Norwegian (Bokmål)” (Dictation list)
- Apple's macOS feature availability page lists Russian (Russia) among the Dictation languages.
“Romanian (Romania) Russian (Russia) Slovak (Slovakia) Shanghainese Spanish (Chile) Spanish (Colombia)” (Dictation list)
- Apple's on-device Dictation list for the Mac includes Cantonese (Hong Kong) and Cantonese (Simplified, China mainland).
“Arabic Cantonese (Hong Kong) Cantonese (Simplified, China mainland) Danish (Denmark)” (Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation)
- Apple lists 48 language and regional variants for on-device and modeless Dictation on the Mac, which require a download of speech models.
“Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation Arabic Cantonese (Hong Kong) Cantonese (Simplified, China mainland) Danish (Denmark) Dutch (Belgium) Dutch (Netherlands)” (Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation section (count of listed entries))
- Apple's on-device Dictation list for the Mac includes Mandarin Chinese (China mainland).
“Malay (Malaysia) Mandarin Chinese (China mainland) Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) Portuguese (Brazil)” (Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation)
- Apple's on-device and modeless Dictation list on the Mac includes Russian (Russia).
“Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) Portuguese (Brazil) Russian (Russia) Spanish (Chile)” (Dictation: On-Device and Modeless Dictation)
- Apple lists 20 language and regional variants for Voice Control on the Mac, about a third of the number for Dictation.
“Accessibility: Voice Control Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Cantonese (China mainland) Cantonese (Hong Kong) English (Australia) English (Canada)” (Accessibility: Voice Control section (count of listed entries))
- Apple's Voice Control list for the Mac includes Russian, written without a region.
“Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan) Russian Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Spain) Spanish (United States) Turkish” (Accessibility: Voice Control)
- Apple lists 'More advanced Dictation', the Apple Intelligence dictation model in macOS 27, only for 9 English variants.
“More advanced Dictation English (Australia) English (Canada) English (India) English (Ireland) English (New Zealand) English (Singapore) English (South Africa) English (United Kingdom) English (United States)” (Apple Intelligence: More advanced Dictation section)
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