When I boot up, I am greeted with the following notice,which I can't get rid of: A 422 mb download is required to use speech recognition features in Dictation. Nothing I have tried will close it down. I then have to hold the on/off button in order to shut down. All help appreciated. It's driving me mad!
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Can't get rid of Dictation notification.
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Update. I have now gone a little deeper into this issue, and will explain what the situation really is. I have two separate accounts on my iMac, and use 2 browsers, Safari and Firefox, on each. The problem only manifests itself on account A on the Firefox browser. Safari is fine. I have no trouble at all with either of the browsers on the second account. By the way, I have never used or installed Dictation, whatever it may be.
Hi! Have you tried checking Firefox extensions to see what's in there? You can open Firefox and paste "about:addons" in the search bar. Maybe you installed some extensions for Text To Speach support and now they're trying to update. If that's not the case, check macOS dictation - maybe there's a setting you missed
Thanks, appitech. What I finally did, and it seemed the only way out, was to allow the Dictation download to go ahead. I am now stuck with it, for the time being at least. I am now plagued by another, more disturbing phenomonen, the sound of a short ringtone every few minutes. Never the same tune twice. This occurs even if I am not displaying any web pages, just the desktop. I have never noticed this before, and wonder if it might be connected to the Dictation download. Woe is me! Edit. Just remembered....... I installed Disk Doctor, yesterday. Mmmmm...
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So, this ringtone also appears when you use Firefox? If you beleive the tune is not related to a certain browser, check system preferences -> notifications - there you can find a list of apps that are allowed to show you notifications and turn off the ones you don't need.
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Well, it all went back to normal, so I'll probably never get to the bottom of it. It wasn't a tune, by the way, just a different burst of notes each time. Just one thing more. I checked Malwarebites, and it had quarantined a malware program which I promptly deleted. Something to do with adware. On reflection, that could have been it. Thanks once again.