GNU bug report logs - #76765
30.1; macOS dictation used to work with Emacs < 30.1

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Charles Choi <kickingvegas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 19:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 76771

Found in version 30.1

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Message #58 received at 76765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Charles Choi <kickingvegas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, 76765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76765: 30.1; macOS dictation used to work with Emacs < 30.1
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:54:46 -0400
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM Charles Choi <kickingvegas <at> gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was able to reproduce functioning voice dictation with the 29.4
>>>>> build from https://emacsformacosx.com/builds
>>>>>
>>>>> Installing from
>>>>> https://emacsformacosx.com/emacs-builds/Emacs-29.4-universal.dmg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Got it.  I see it does work for me.  (I stopped using that distro last
>>>> year because it's slow and buggy in other ways.). That's perfect as I can
>>>> try to analyze it now.  I'm curious, perhaps morbidly so.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for that.  I also verified that his 30.1 build does not take
>>>> dictation, should it be a difference in compilation by the distro producers.
>>>>
>>>> I'll dig this afternoon for a bit.
>>>>
>>>
>>> David's build script hasn't changed in months so it ain't that.  Looking
>>> deeper now.
>>>
>>
>> This looks like a build-time toolchain issue and it will take some
>> further investigation.
>>
>
> Charles, would you submit an issue to David Caldwell here
> https://github.com/caldwell/build-emacs/issues and let him know dictation
> works on his 29 but not his 30?  He might be quicker at identifying the
> issue since he has multiple toolchains available.
>

I've gone ahead and done that so that David is aware and can assist with
the toolchain.
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