Siri dictation throws in extra words that I am not saying

When I dictate a text or other things, catcher Siri randomly throws in some form of the word catch whenever she wants to. It just happened above after the words other things achieve. I never said the word catcher. Catch the same thing is true of the word achieve a Chuchu in a sentence before last catchy. Catching. There it goes again so I will type the rest of this. You have to ignore “a Chuchu” to make sense of what Siri is typing in place of what I am dictating. Ever see anything like this before?

iPhone 6s

Posted on Oct 25, 2019 7:15 PM

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Posted on Nov 22, 2019 4:46 PM

Wow BadBernie! Thank you on behalf of everyone for doing all that!


I was having the catchy word problem every day with virtually every text on my iPhone 11 pro max until I updated to iOS 13.2.3 two days ago and so far (knock on wood) it has not happened once since then.

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Dec 22, 2019 12:13 PM in response to raymondpope

I spent an hour on the phone earlier today with them. The supervisor I was talking to wasn’t even aware of the problem, or so she said. Catch First she blamed it on my Bluetooth, but I told her I wasn’t using Bluetooth. She told me to reset my phone LOL. But since I know this is happening to alot of people,I told her I didn’t see much use in doing that,then she said Catch up she couldn’t hear me anymore, was going to call me back and never did. Catchy That was a nice waste of it over an hour on a Sunday afternoon And yes I left the catchy catch up and catch in this message on purpose. Because that’s what my stupid POS phone is doing all the time

Dec 26, 2019 11:24 PM in response to ChrissyBarr

I called a few hours ago, again, and my call was dropped after much waiting to speak with a rep. BTW, I tried to post a few weeks ago an interesting discovery, but my post buffered endlessly. I went o bed, hoping my post would finally "send". It did not. Here is a shortened version of that post.

Try typing this into google EXACTLY as it appears below:

Catcher, catch, fatou, chuchu, chachi correlation

Three websites that come up are password-cracking or password database websites!

Jan 8, 2020 2:28 PM in response to msbri

This is not solved. I don’t know why it’s marked as “Solved.” I have been having this problem For a while - months - And I just tried breathing and it does not create these random words.


As with every issue I have with my Apple devices, when you search for the problem it shows you everything but what you’re looking for like there’s never a problem it’s only fan boy articles and rumors about what’s coming.

Another issue is how dictation will change what you said while you are talking and even after; sometimes just as you’re sending a text. And every so often it will erase every single thing you typed and retype it but if you lose connectivity you will lose everything you said. (Of course on this particular reply it’s been perfect.) There’s no reason why they can’t have local voice recognition you shouldn’t need the Internet.

Jan 8, 2020 4:55 PM in response to Idon't

Idon't wrote:

This is not solved. I don’t know why it’s marked as “Solved.”

That's something you'd need to ask the original poster as they are the only one who can mark a post "solved".


There’s no reason why they can’t have local voice recognition you shouldn’t need the Internet.

Actually, there is. The level of voice recognition on an iPhone requires more power than the phone itself has. So, it relies on a connection to Apple's servers and their vast databases.


Jan 8, 2020 7:23 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

I don't want to be that guy - but if you have nothing to say, maybe consider not saying it. I wasn't asking you, I was making a statement that it isn't resolved. Also, I had a *flip phone twenty years ago which could voice dial. It is uninformed to state that you need Apple's supposedly vast database on a 256 GB iPhone such that you can't even dial "Bob" without a good internet connection. Perhaps it wouldn't be perfect, but at least you wouldn't be so reliant on maintaining an excellent and persistent internet connection.

Jan 13, 2020 9:13 AM in response to Hesrollin

Why is apple not addressing this problem? Catcher why are they just putting their head in the sand and pretending it’s not there and giving us fixes the do not fix the problem?

Notice “Catcher” appeared in this text.

This is crazy. Apple needs to take some accountability and offer viable remediation. It’s probably just not cost-effective for them. As if they couldn’t afford it

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