Dictating in a second language

[floridienne]

I have chosen two languages for my keyboard, which are English and French. I've gone into settings and then keyboard. I have two keyboard options for typing in French or English. moreover, when I try to dictate in French, it types English words that might sound like French. when I look at my settings, it seems everything is the way it should be, but all I see is English when I dictate. I'm attaching some screenshots in case that helps someone troubleshoot my issue. I'm working on a MacBook Air and I'm using Sonoma. 14.14.1. Any ideas?

 

[iStorm]

Are you making French the selected/active keyboard first before dictating?

 

[floridienne]

Hi, thanks for your quick reply. I was certain I had done that, but I had so many different articles telling me what to do that evidently, I missed that because I just tried it again and I see that if I don't switch it in the menu bar, it doesn't type the language I want I think another issue is I was using the preset shortcut which was F5 however, when it wasn't working, I tried using command two times as a shortcut so it is working now! Thanks again so much.