Alvaro Ramirez writes: > On 22 Jul 2025, at 15:23, Stéphane Marks > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM Eli Zaretskii > wrote: > > > From: Alvaro Ramirez > > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:00:18 +0100 > > Cc: Stéphane Marks , > > Eli Zaretskii , > > 79070@debbugs.gnu.org, > > kickingvegas@gmail.com, > > stefankangas@gmail.com > > > > +1 I’d like to propose we treat macOS 12.7.6 / Intel as a > > separate issue if that’s ok? > > If that is what we want to do, then the PROBLEMS entry should > be > updated to say that older versions of macOS are not supported > by this > feature in Emacs. > > But, older than what specific macOS version will be the > question to answer, > > We can only go with the information we have available as of > today, given the hardware and macOS versions we have > access to. With new data points, we would update this info. > > I’m happy to update PROBLEMS with the data we know today (maybe > something like “There are reports of this feature > being unavailable for macOS 12 users"). Updated PROBLEMS (attaching 0005-Enabled-macOS-dictation-post-NSTextInputClient-migration.patch) > and why it's broken/incomplete is another question. > > I’m running out of ideas to fix on hardware (and OS version) I > don’t have access to. One thing that comes to mind is > patching with the rollback, since I was able to get dictation > working that way also. This may not be a future-proof solution > to submit upstream, but helps unblock your use-case using local > builds. A tiny bit of additional info with respect to roll back (yields deprecation warning) vs roll forward fix... macOS seems to use a different dictation mechanism after NSTextInputClient was introduced (Emacs v30). Attaching screenshots showing different UI dictation triggered by either patch.