Description: Libre Office always crashes - i.e. coloured spinning balloon and I need to shut down and restart - when I use voice to text dictation on Macbook. This happened on my old mac, and now I have a brand new Macbook M1 using Ventura 13.0.1 and Libre Office 7.4.2.3 installed, and enocunter exactly the same problem, every time. Voice to text dictation on Libre Office / Macbook will not work. Steps to Reproduce: 1.activate dictation in an open file (I have assigned the function to a specific key) 2.begin speaking. Voice begins translating to text for a few words to a line 3.the dreaded cloured balloon appears and spins forever more Actual Results: As mentioned, the dreaded cloured balloon appears. Need to shut down and restart. Expected Results: Voice to text should complete without program freeze Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: N/A
Hardware Overview: Model Name: Mac mini Model Identifier: Macmini8,1 Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i3 Processor Speed: 3.6 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 8 GB System Firmware Version: 1916.40.8.0.0 (iBridge: 20.16.420.0.0,0) OS Loader Version: 564.40.4~27 Serial Number (system): C07DC0V5PJH7 Hardware UUID: CBC43DE6-B8C2-58F5-83D4-6CB60096203C Provisioning UDID: CBC43DE6-B8C2-58F5-83D4-6CB60096203C Activation Lock Status: Enabled Version: 7.4.2.3 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 382eef1f22670f7f4118c8c2dd222ec7ad009daf CPU threads: 4; OS: Mac OS X 13.0.1; UI render: default; VCL: osx Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Before Test execution… Ran system diagnostics, see attached file: Bug152420-preTestProcessSample.txt. Steps to Reproduce: 1. activate dictation in an open file (I have assigned the function to a specific key) ML: a. I have set up dictation through the MacOS Settings>Keyboard>Dictation. b. Keyboard shortcut assigned to OPTION+S. c. Opened blank document from the Start Centre, saved as Test01.odt 2. begin speaking. Voice begins translating to text for a few words to a line MJL: a. Dictated the following text: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow,And every where that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go ;He followed her to school one day—That was against the rule,It made the children laugh and play,To see a lamb at school. a. Clicked at the top left of the open Writer document. b. Started dictation. c. I was able to successfully dictact the text :”Mary had a little lamb…” See Screen shot 3.the dreaded cloured balloon appears and spins forever more MJL: a. In my test configuration I am running Activity Monitor, BBEdit, LibreOffice, Notes, Preview, Systems Settings, Termial and Finder. b. I have captured the system Activity for LibreOffice, see Bug152420-resultOfDictactionProcessActivity.png. CONCLUSIONS: a. I was not able to reproduce the identified problem. b. Suggest capture the activity at the time the LibreOffice process failed, and your hardware Oviewview from Apple>About this Mac> More Info>System Report. c. STATUS OF BUG: UNCONFIRMED.
Created attachment 184061 [details] Bug152420-result Of Dictaction
Created attachment 184062 [details] Bug152420-result Of Dictaction Process Activity This shows the CPU and Memory performance through Activity Monitor
Created attachment 184063 [details] Bug152420-pre Test Process Sample This is a sample of all the system activities associated with this process prior to executing the test.
Thanks Mike I'm unsure where I should respond to your response, so I have done so here. I'm still getting the same issue. I've even assigned the key to the same key you have (ie OPTION +S). There is one notable difference depending on whether the doc is old or new doc. In an old document (i.e. in a previously saved doc with text previously saved), the issue is the same as previously. In a new document, the voice to text appears to work, but there is a 15 second lag between completing the vocals and seeing the text. When you request a system report, how should I convey that, using a screenshot? If so where do i attach a screenshot. One Thousand Apologies for all of my techno-nincompoopery! Graham
(In reply to g.stjohn from comment #5) No worries Grahan… I suggest the following: 1. Shut donw all applications than what you need for the test. 2. Start your LibreOffice, with test document you want to dictage into. 3. Start Activity Monitor, and choose the CPU view. 4. Search for ibreOffice 5. Double click the LibreOffice process in Activity Monitor 6. Click the Sample button, before dictating, and save the file. 7. Commence dictating, and if your LibreOffice session fails, then click the sample button, and save the file. 8. Attach both files to this bug case.
Created attachment 184090 [details] Libreoffice test file sampled before dictation
Created attachment 184091 [details] Libreoffice test file after dictation The sample of the file when frozen after attempting dication BTW. The test file is an existing saved file. It appears that dication works with a fresh file with no previously saved text, but in that case there is a 15 second lag between speaking and seeing text
Please copy and paste here the contents of your Help - About by clicking the copy button. This allows us to know more about your system.
Could you please explain where I will find the "copy" button, or how best can I convey the details about my system - i.e. on a Macbook. Do i need to redo the whole procedure?
(In reply to g.stjohn from comment #10) > Could you please explain where I will find the "copy" button, or how best > can I convey the details about my system - i.e. on a Macbook. Do i need to > redo the whole procedure? On macOS it is found through LibreOffice - About.
Created attachment 184115 [details] screenshot of Libreoffice about
(In reply to g.stjohn from comment #12) > Created attachment 184115 [details] > screenshot of Libreoffice about Thanks. For the future, just click the button to the right of "Version Information" to get the text into your clipboard.
Ah, OK, thanks. While that button is obvious now, on an information dense screen, it is not an obvious button.
@g.stjohn : I would suggest that you test the latest developer, and future 7.5, build : https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?type=mac-aarch64&version=7.5.0&lang=en There were some nasty macOS crashers in 7.4 (and previous), which have only recently been fixed in the 7.5 development branch.
See also bug 149605, where I had already commented that any attempt to use VoiceOver to dictate in a Writer document led to a spinning beachball situation (comments 5 and 6).
Dear Alex and Co Bingo! Developer build 7.5 appears to have fixed this problem - which had plagued me for months and had driven me back to Open Office. Thank you! Graham
@g.stjohn : thanks for reporting back ! For what it is worth, the crash is not reproducible in Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: ad387d5b984c6666906505d25685065f710ed55d CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 13.0.1; UI render: default; VCL: osx Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Good to know . I will look out for it! Thankyou Alex and Mike. Graham