I have an iPad Pro 12.9 and an iPhone 6s, both have "hey siri" enabled, along with dictation. However I can't get the offline dictation to show up. I initially thought it was because I live in Italy (but I have everything set to US English), so I tried wiping the iPad and just setting up everything without logging in to any Apple account. I set the location to USA and the language to US English, but I still can't get offline dictation. Any suggestions?
IOS 9.3 offline dictation not working
iossirivoice-dictation
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Siri needs the internet to do voice recognition. It doesn't understand your question without first sending the audio of you asking up to a central processing system.
For the future reference of anyone reaching this page VIA Google, I found an answer to the problem here. Basically, at the upper-right corner of the screen there's an "edit" button that allows you to change the order of or remove languages, but this Edit button looks like it has nothing at all to do with this "preferred languages" setting which is the second in the list on this page.
(because logic)
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I think I solved this!!!!
I have an iPhone 6s+ and iPad Pro, neither of which allowed offline dictation.
For some reason, the language package which allows your iPhone 6s(+) or iPad Pro to do offline dictation appears to be downloaded alongside of any of Siri's English dialects.
Discovered this semi-accidentally. I had a weird-and-shouldn't-work epiphany this morning. I had an American English keyboard but prefer Siri's British voice. I wondered if it would only download if the keyboard preference and Siri dialect were the same. Changed the dialect to American English (which I had to download), restarted the phone, and viola, offline dictation was enabled.
Tried the same on my iPad, but it didn't work.
But then I realized that Siri's American English was already loaded on my iPad, so I tried downloading the Australian dialect, and voila!, offline dictation was now enabled.
It appears that downloading any English dialect for Siri will also download the offline dictation package.
Good luck!