Siri dictation throws in extra words that I am not saying

I was told by the company to use a particular case number and to ask others to use the same number. However, I was eventually prevented from posting about this issue, getting messages from the home company that I was violating the rules by trying to start a petition or something similar.

Not solved at all. We’ll see if this posting survives.

This is me typing with my tremor insteadzcc of using dictation. With the third csall I made to Apple, the rep and I discussed the Apple Community threasad. She took time to look at it and come back on the line to say thhat Apple IT should know of a problesm of this magnituude but were likely still trying to resolve it. I mention the thread link and the case nuumber evefrytime I speak weithw a different rep. I feel it is important to do so.

So anyway, I was having this problem a lot while I was in Italy using a SIM card that I had bought through one of the major phone providers there. (TIM) I had the problem very bad for over two months.

I have returned to the United States and reinserted my Verizon Sim card. It has been four days and I have not had a single instance of the weird words being inserted no matter how hard I have actually tried to trigger it. It may relate to the Internet provider that is being used.

This is just a theory but I can relate only what has happened for me.

Well, I just posted that as MY experience. Since nobody seems to know what causes this, I threw my data point in. I have tried and tried to get it to reproduce the effect I was having but has completely stopped since I changed back to my old SIM.

Maybe it was the re-insertion of the SIM and that is all. I don't know, but thought to share.

YMMV, of course.

Please have your friend also call Apple Care. I've called three times and plan to call again tomorrow, again using the case number y'all listed above in this thread. Your friend in his/her call might mention too what I mentioned above in thread about password-hacking webpages appearing when I googled this: Catcher, catch, catchy, fatou, chachi, chuchu correlation.

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.

It appears like Tourette’s Syndrome to me. 😉

Your view that she is asserting her independence is a much more positive one. If so it would be a pretty adolescent expression of development. The operating system should evolve and improve our dictation rather than mess it up. 🙄😉

By the way, on a serious note, I don’t use Siri to dictate. This weird phenomenon shows up when I dictate through the microphone. If you like to trip on the idea of operating systems evolving there’s a movie I loved about that called “Her”.

Hey, everyone ... I don’t want to jinx anything but I have not noticed the extra words in a few days now. I’m wondering if it might be fixed? I have purposely tried pausing while I dictate and everything seems fine now. Does anyone else feel like it’s better for them?

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 have been having the disappearing paragraph problem. Apple's implementation of voice recognition is such crap, relying on the internet and trying to learn as you keep speaking - changing words back and forth and back again, you never know when it will stop. How can it delete everything you speak, most of which is fine, and then you have to hope it all comes back again.