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Dictation changes in Catalina: for the worse?
Eclectic Light Company, 2019
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- A December 2019 article by a long-running Mac blog that compares Dictation in Mojave with Dictation in Catalina. It reports that Enhanced Dictation was removed in Catalina and that the remaining dictation lost formatting commands and timed out.
- How much weight it carries
- Independent, dated and specific, but it is one author's experience written in 2019, not an Apple document. Apple's own pages do not describe the removal, so treat it as a reliable account of the change rather than Apple's wording.
Facts taken from this source
- After Enhanced Dictation was removed, Catalina's dictation lacked formatting commands such as 'new paragraph' and turned itself off after a few moments without speech.
“This means it lacks all the useful formatting commands, like ‘new paragraph’, and will turn itself off after a few moments without speech input.” (Paragraph on Catalina changes)
- In macOS Catalina, Enhanced Dictation was removed, while the Dictation tab stayed in the Keyboard pane.
“The old Dictation tab is still in the Keyboard pane, but Enhanced Dictation has been removed.” (Paragraph on Catalina changes)