After Recent Update Dictation Stopped Working
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Carmine Echidna
This may just be for me. I just tested here, and dictation works fine. But within, NovelCrafter itself. Whether it be the chat or writing the scene, all of a sudden I can no longer utilize windows voice access. It worked fine up until the most recent update, then all of a sudden it just stopped working. Now, I have to dictate into Microsoft word then copy and paste into NovelCrafter. Not a big deal, but not exactly as efficient as it was a few days ago when everything was pretty streamlined.
I've tried the following:
- Restarting my PC
- Utilizing a different PC (my laptop)
- Placing my forehead on my desk for 10 minutes.
- Stopped being a baby and dictated to word and just went back and forth between the two programs. The reason I use dictation software is, I'm missing 4 fingers. It's faster for me. Not the end of the world, just was extremely Convenient when I didn't have to go back and forth between two windows. The good news is that I can dictate within the bug reports. So that's nice.
spaceemotion
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that is so weird. will investigate!
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Carmine Echidna
spaceemotion I also just tried changing the theme from light to dark. Since that's the only difference that I can see from the two spaces. Dictation still didn't work. I also attempted to try dictating into a scene beat. That didn't work.
What did work though, was switching from utilizing the Opera browser. To using Chrome or Brave Browser. Then the dictation started working fine. I'm not sure why it no longer works on Opera, specifically just for Novelcrafter. But, that's fine! I'll just use Chrome :D
spaceemotion
Carmine Echidna Okay, interesting! yeah we did test it with the normal windows dictation earlier and it worked just fine and we were like "maybe it was a windows update?". Since it seems browser-dependent I am guessing it might have more to do with that than NC itself.
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Carmine Echidna
spaceemotion Yeah! Idk. I know that I can dictate here with Opera, just not in the chat or within scenes. But at least I found a solution for now. Just super weird! Thanks for looking into it! Sorry for the trouble.
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Carmine Echidna
spaceemotion Also just wanted to update, I can dictate into the help chat. Kate apparently responded to my initial question about it a while back. So, it for some reason works there... but when I click into the scene or A.I. Chat it doesn't it's so weird hahaha.