Dictation not working in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Solution 1:
I had the same problem and it drove me crazy! This helped me:
- Go to
~/Library/Preferences( ⇧+⌘+G ) - Locate
com.apple.assistant.plistand move it to the Trash - Open Dictation & Speech preference panel, disable dictation
- Reboot
- Re-enable Dictation & Speech.
Voila!
PS This hint has the nicest side-effect: In Mail, all accounts used to be offline after sleep (Small triangle icons next to account), and would only come back on after quitting and restarting Mail.app. Now, all is well again. Ts!