Siri dictation throws in extra words that I am not saying

Let's please keep alerting Apple Care about this. I am also posting on social media concerning "catchy", but I am only one person. We need support on this issue. I don't know how many other folk out there rely heavily on voice dictation, but I do. Let us get Apple to CARE.

I have been noticing the same thing. I’m dictating now and taking lots of pauses and there are no extra words being thrown in. Let’s hope this is some kind of fix they were able to do from their side without an update.

I also have noticed this isn't happening anymore. I think that it is vile that they so enthusiastically try and channel users to the forums, but they don't apparently monitor them, give complaints any credibility, or respond.

I was also asked to reset my iPhone to factory settings through iTunes, downloading fresh software, and then restoring from a backup and logging back into everything. I didn't do it because I thought it was stupid and I knew the problem WASN'T ON MY DEVICE. It is so frustrating to rely on the cloud for voice recognition (even "call Bob") *especially when the quality of the result is so variable and can be much worse if you have a bad connection. Once, while driving out of my house it switched from wifi to cellular and everything that it typed was ERASED so it could rewrite it and sometimes it just deletes it. Or, what about when it keeps changing a word back and forth multiple times between the correct and incorrect dictation - only to change it back to wrong one just as your sending!

I don't mind that they're not perfect, I mind that they are so arrogant and make things that should be simple difficult. Give me on-device voice recognition. My friend's name is Randy. If you say "call Randy" it will type out "call Randy" and then call "Andy" or "Sandy" - why? Or it will dictate text and when you go to edit it says you need to unlock. But when you unlock the dictated text is gone. Or it will say there is no such person, but when you go into Contacts, the person is there.

Thankful that the issue looks resolved - it shouldn't be this hard.

I'm 99% sure it is NOT the model of the phone. I'm on an iPhone 6S & it happened abruptly after installing the latest OS update. People with all sorts of models are having the problem.

Yes, lets all call! We must deluge Apple with calls demanding a fix!!!!

Did you call Apple care & use the case number above?

Me too especially when I’m dictating into Google docs, probably because there are a lot of lengthy dictations and pauses. Aside from catch and catchy I get “Fatoui”, Whatever that means.

Thinking of returning my iPhone 11 Pro Max.

Possibly a hardware issue?

Maybe we should report this phenomenon with a link to this thread so that they can see that it’s not a frivolous or individually idiosyncratic complaint.

Yes, I am connected by Wi-Fi and I have had it happen when I’m away from home also. It might be an exaggeration to say it happens every single time but it is so frequent that I come to expect it each time. That’s how I found this group… I googled something like “iPhone texting catch catchy.”

Catcher I have seven grandkids of my own LOL.… Oh look it just appeared. And I am on Wi-Fi. Catchy

Don't get too excited; it's still broken on my desktop. There was a point where it didn't happen for a few days, and I thought it was fixed, but then it came roaring back.

I REALLY wish Apple would make some sort of official declaration about this!