audio mic input when using Siri or dictation

[danny klim]

Hi, I am having issues with the audio mic input when using Siri or dictation on my Mac. Could you please help?


When I use dictation on my Mac, it does not hear any signal from my audio interface. When I switch the mic input to the internal microphone or an external webcam microphone, dictation works fine. The audio interface is being heard perfectly well when I open logic, so I dont think the issue is with the audio interface. (Ive tried changing the mic input to each of these in system preferences>keyboard>dictation settings.)


When I use Siri on my Mac, it does not hear any signal from my audio interface OR my internal microphone. Siri does work fine when I switch the input to the external webcam microphone, but that is the only mic input that is working.

I’ve tried changing the mic input to each of these in system preferences>siri settings.)


I’m not sure how to fix this or if there’s just an issue with the software, I don’t see anywhere else to adjust settings. Can you please help?



Thanks, Dan

 

[danny klim]

Can anybody please offer some input about this? Still having the issue and have no idea how to fix it

 

[Crash0veride]

Any difference with the external mic/cam unplugged while testing?

Also confused by

When I switch the mic input to the internal microphone or an external webcam microphone, dictation works fine.

Switch to internal/external from what third option (or more if there are more than three)? I'm not on a legit mac for a few hours so I can't do an Apple to Apple comparison currently (pun).

 

[danny klim]

Thanks Crash! lol! I tried it while all externals were disconnected today and am recieving some different results, but still some issues. Here's whats happening now:

Both Siri and mac dictation are now working perfectly when their "mic input" settings are set to the internal microphone. Not sure what changed from before, i updated the macOS so maybe that made the difference.

The only issue now is that neither of them are picking up any signal from the microphones connected to my audio interface (when i change the "mic input" settings to my interface, of course).

This is happening now whether the externals are plugged in or not.

I dont understand it because my interface works fine in Logic and Ableton. Do you know of any way to fix this?