The Enhanced Dictation downloads 1.2GB voice recognition pack to Mac. This pack makes the Enhanced Dictation feature to work seamlessly. But 1.2GB is a lot of space and you may wish to free it up when you are not using the feature very often. So check out the steps below to remove Enhanced Dictation 1.2GB pack and get back the memory space.
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How to Remove Enhanced Dictation 1.2GB Pack from Mac
- First of navigate to System Preferences.
- Then go to Keyboard.
- Then finally to Dictation.
- Now in the Dictation tab, you need to uncheck the Use Enhanced Dictation to turn it OFF.
- Next from Finder on the Mac, press Command+Shift+G.
- Then enter the following path:
/System/Library/Speech/Recognizers/SpeechRecognitionCoreLanguages/ - Select Go.
- Then in the location you end up in, you have to delete the folder enUS.SpeechRecognition or enXX.SpeechRecognistion. (where XX can be AU, UK, etc)
