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[PATCH] Fix macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30

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From: Charles Choi <kickingvegas <at> gmail.com>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Ramirez <alvaro <at> xenodium.com>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 79070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, shipmints <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#79070: [PATCH] Fix macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:10:49 -0700

Gerd -

If you are running macOS on a laptop, I've found that suspend can intermittently put the speech recognition daemon ~corespeechd~ in a bad state. This impacts Siri, so you can test if you are in this state accordingly. Killing ~corespeechd~ will fix this as ~launchd~ will automatically restart it. This occurs enough that I've written an Elisp function to do just that.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp :lexical no
(defun cc/dictation-reset ()
  "Reset macOS dictation service corespeechd."
  (interactive)
  (process-lines "killall" "corespeechd"))
#+END_SRC

Perhaps this is why dictation is not working for you?

Regards -

Charles
—
Charles Y. Choi, Ph.D.
kickingvegas <at> gmail.com




> On Jul 21, 2025, at 9:00 AM, Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Alvaro Ramirez <alvaro <at> xenodium.com> writes:
> 
>> It’s possible to explicitly trigger microphone permission request by running these from *eshell*:
>> 
>> 1. ffmpeg -f avfoundation -list_devices true -i “” ;; to find microphone id
>> 2. ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i ":0" -t 10 audiocapture.mp3 ;; using :id
>> from 1.
> 
> That works here when executed from a terminal. The MBP microphone is :1
> here, and I can record something. When I do the same from a running
> Emacs, in Eshell (or Vterm, for that matter), I get
> 
> ~ $ ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i ":1" -t 10 audiocapture.mp3
> ffmpeg version 7.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers
>  built with Apple clang version 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3)
>  configuration: --prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ffmpeg/7.1.1_3 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags='-Wl,-ld_classic' --enable-ffplay --enable-gnutls --enable-gpl --enable-libaom --enable-libaribb24 --enable-libbluray --enable-libdav1d --enable-libharfbuzz --enable-libjxl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-librav1e --enable-librist --enable-librubberband --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libtesseract --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-lzma --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libspeex --enable-libsoxr --enable-libzmq --enable-libzimg --disable-libjack --disable-indev=jack --enable-videotoolbox --enable-audiotoolbox --enable-neon
>  libavutil      59. 39.100 / 59. 39.100
>  libavcodec     61. 19.101 / 61. 19.101
>  libavformat    61.  7.100 / 61.  7.100
>  libavdevice    61.  3.100 / 61.  3.100
>  libavfilter    10.  4.100 / 10.  4.100
>  libswscale      8.  3.100 /  8.  3.100
>  libswresample   5.  3.100 /  5.  3.100
>  libpostproc    58.  3.100 / 58.  3.100
> 2025-07-21 17:50:23.313 ffmpeg[19167:11461232] WARNING: Add NSCameraUseContinuityCameraDeviceType to your Info.plist to use AVCaptureDeviceTypeContinuityCamera.
> 2025-07-21 17:50:23.404 ffmpeg[19167:11461232] WARNING: AVCaptureDeviceTypeExternal is deprecated for Continuity Cameras. Please use AVCaptureDeviceTypeContinuityCamera and add NSCameraUseContinuityCameraDeviceType to your Info.plist.
> abort trap: 6
> 
> (That's an unpatched Emacs from master, if that matters.)
> 
>> 
>> Or maybe checking under System Settings > Privacy & Security >
>> Microphone and verifying Emacs is listed there?
> 
> Emacs isn't there, but there also seems to be no way to add an
> application there.
> 
>> 
>> Just thinking out loud here to troubleshoot things. Anything else that comes to mind we can try?
>> 
>> I’ll try to clear all permissions here and see if I can reproduce the issue.
> 
> Thanks, that's definitely far beyond my expertise :-).

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