I have been using the MacOS dictation tool within Scrivener and it works well while it’s working. But I can only get about half an hour before it starts kicking out black squares with question marks in them instead of characters. The only solution I have discovered is rebooting the laptop and starting again, Does anyone have a solution to this?
Have you confirmed whether this happens specifically with Scrivener? You could try using a TextEdit window for a longer session, with the intention of copying and pasting the results into Scrivener when you’re done. If that breaks down as well then you should broaden your search beyond Scrivener specifically. I’d probably do that anyway as a first step.
It would be a little strange for this system tool to only break in one program. But do use Mac software for testing, not Word or Chrome or anything like that. TextEdit is a good choice because its text editor is very close to Scrivener’s. I would strongly recommend turning Wrap to Page on, in the Format menu, as this will force it to use the exact same text engine Scrivener uses. The only differences then will be the stuff we’ve added.
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