As Yosemite is past its first beta and almost ready for release, many folks are reporting issues with text-to-speech functionality in Yosemite.

This may have to do with Siri being integrated into the final form of Yosemite, per an Apple patent:

The US patent, titled “Intelligent Digital Assistant in a Desktop Environment” suggests that Siri is making the move from Apple’s mobile platform, iOS to OS X Yosemite.

The included photo is a clear depiction of Siri.

Jeff, stop poking me

Also, Yosemite will support 24 new dictation languages, up from 8 currently in Mavericks, including Arabic and Portuguese.

We’ll find out more after Yosemite’s rumored final release in October.