Permissions

macOS asks for each of these separately, and you can say no to any of them. Saying no disables the feature that needs it — nothing else.

VerbaIDE does not ask for a separate speech recognition permission.

Microphone

Needed for: every kind of dictation.

VerbaIDE listens to your microphone to turn speech into text. Audio is processed on your Mac. Saving meeting audio to disk is a separate option.

Accessibility

Needed for: typing into the field your cursor is in, and Smart Keyboard.

This is the permission that lets VerbaIDE put text into another app’s text field. Without it, dictation recognises your speech and has nowhere to put it.

When Smart Keyboard is on, it uses the same permission to listen to key presses, read the actual field text before the cursor and type corrections. Layout correction reads back to the sentence start or the number of previous words set in settings, up to 16,384 UTF-16 units; if the required start is unavailable, no correction is made. Individual letter correction may also read up to 64 characters on each side of the cursor. The snapshot is forgotten after the decision; search boxes, address bars and password fields are never read.

VerbaIDE does not ask for a separate Input Monitoring permission. If Accessibility is missing, Smart Keyboard asks for it when you turn the feature on or open its settings, never at app launch. Keys are processed on your Mac, and typed text is not logged or sent; words you undo are saved only in the local exception list.

Audio capture from apps

Needed for: subtitles and meeting recording — hearing the other side of a call.

This one has no API to ask “am I allowed?”. macOS answers by refusing to create the audio tap, and the app reads that refusal as “not allowed”. If subtitles say the source is unavailable and you believe the permission is granted, this is usually why.

If you said no

Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, find the permission, and turn VerbaIDE on. Some permissions take effect on the next launch of the app.

The menu bar warning includes permissions that are denied or have not been requested yet. Audio capture from apps is included after a recorded refusal. An unknown audio capture status is not treated as a missing permission: macOS has no API to check it before a capture attempt.

A note on languages

The wording macOS shows in these dialogs comes from the app in your system language. If you change the app’s language by hand, the system dialog follows on the next launch, not immediately.