---
title: allowsDictation
framework: automaticassessmentconfiguration
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: automaticassessmentconfiguration/aeassessmentconfiguration/allowsdictation
---

# allowsDictation

A Boolean value that indicates whether to allow the use of dictation during an assessment.

## Declaration

```swift
var allowsDictation: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion By turning on Enable Dictation (General > Keyboard in the Settings app on iOS and iPadOS), users can speak into their device and have the words they speak converted to text. An assessment session disables this feature by default, but you can allow it by setting allowsDictation to true in the AEAssessmentConfiguration instance that you use to initialize a session.

## See Also

### Allowing accessibility

- [allowsAccessibilitySpeech](automaticassessmentconfiguration/aeassessmentconfiguration/allowsaccessibilityspeech.md)