Enhanced Dictation does not work.

I bought a cheap microphone, cheapest I could get. I plugged it into the "Audio In" port of my Mac Mini. The Mini is running OSX 10.9.4.   I went to the "Dictation & Speech" system preference and turned on Enhanced Dictation.   The Mini automatically downloaded whatever it downloaded. I turned on the microphone, double-clicked the "Function" key twice, and got no response in text boxes in either Word or Safari.
I went back to "Dictation & Speech" and changed the input from "Automatic" to "Line In."   When I double-clicked "Function," I got the icon of the old-fashioned microphone. I talked, but neither Word nor Safari responded.
I deleted ~Library/Caches/com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore/Users/en_GB.
Two days later, I have tried again. Today I opened "Dictation & Speech" and re-set everything to turn on. The Mini downloaded whatever it downloads, and, again, I get no response from my dictating.
In fact, now the "Start Dictation" tool in the Edit menu is dimmed.   Neither that tool nor the Function key can get Enhanced Dictation to work.
Help!

Test the microphone in the Sound preference pane.

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Enhanced dictation does not work. I've tried everything. Any help?

Hello everybody. After downloading enhanced dictation (spanish-spain), the microphone seems to be Ok but no word is written. Regular online dictation works well. I use a mac-mini i7 16Gb and a micro connected to an external audio card firewire. I've tried to delete and download again several times, to clean the cache, turn on-off with resets,.. but nothing seems to fix the problem. Dictation is important for me to work and I'd like to try with enhanced dictation because I've read that it improves the performance with respect to online dictation.
I've empoyed such a lot of time looking for a solution in the support community and other forums but nothing worked.
Could anybody help me.
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Ok, I reply to myself.
The problem was caused by the microphone and the firewire connection. Enhanced Dictation is not ready to work with my audio hardware (micro Shure and Presonus audio card via Firewire). Although this audio hardware works fine with other software and even with online dictation, when I use it with Enhanced Dictation, the system seems to be working (the micro bars of the microphone in the screen move ok) but no words are written at all.
The solution was to connect it analogically, using an audio connection between my audio card and the line-in connection of the mac mini (stereo).
Hope Apple will solve this problem. I guess many people probably are having the same problem, mainly people with pro audio cards. I hope that this will help them

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I would assume that where ever there is an area to enter text and if you had clicked into that area and do your FNFN shuffle that dictation would plug in what you are typeing. I guess I am wrong. It would appear that this only works in the Apple built applications but very few 3rd party apps like IBM Sametime and IBM Notes, is it because they are heavily dependant on Java and Eclipse?
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Yes I have already done the normal repair disk, repair permissions, disable and re-enable dictation etc etc.

I got enhanced dictation to work. I hadn't tried it until I read your post. Once I hit the Fn key twice, I had to download and install the 785MB enhanced dictation. When that completed, I saw the microphone and my dictation got accepted, interpreted, and properly processed.
I don't know what I did differently than you.

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My dictation software was working fine then suddnely not so much. I have ensured it has been enabled, I have selected automatic detection as the default, I have choesen the internal microphone as the default, I have chosen the external microphone as the default, I have even deleted the
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Russrwl wrote:
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