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[PATCH] Fix macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
wrote:
> Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > >> Ok to install, Eli?
> > >
> > > Maybe. I'm not sure I understand what are the conclusions from your
> > > experience, which eventually needed to use tcutil. Are we sure this
> > > is just a fluke and not a more fundamental problem?
> >
> > tccutil is a program that removes entries from a database containing
> > application-specific privacy settings. For example, if an app wants to
> > use the microphone or camera and such, it has to ask for permission, and
> > the result of that lands in that TCC database. 'tcc reset' clears such
> > entries.
> >
> > It's very possible that I denied Emacs access to the microphone in the
> > past because I routinely do that :-). Also to the camera, of course, and
> > such things. That may have been years ago, because I migrate my settings
> > from machine to machine for a very long time. And if so, it would have
> > been for a different dictation system because that whole thing changed
> > some years ago, around macOS 14, not sure.
> >
> > Anyway, the current dictation system apparently doesn't require special
> > privacy privileges, i.e. macOS doesn't ask for permission to use the
> > microphone for the current incarnation of dictation. But dictation also
> > doesn't work if one has "deny settings" in the TCC database. After
> > clearing these entries in with `tccutil reset`, Emacs now works like any
> > other app.
> >
> > So it seems at least. That's about what I can say.
> >
> > So far, the patch does not work on macOS 12.7.6 (the only version I use
> across my Intel Macs). So something else is missing?
>
> Time for OCLP, given that Monterey not longer receives security updates?
>
> https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
>
> (I've used OCLP very successfully on a MBP from 2013 until it finally
> died a year ago :-(.)
>
Without knowing precisely what the issue is, it's hard to say that's a
great suggestion? Previous versions of Emacs work fine on 12.7.6, so it's
clearly not an O/S issue, but one with the API change to NSTextInputClient
that's missing something else? All other apps I've tried seem to support
dictation just fine.
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