Microphone has started adding the word "catch" or "catch up" to what I have dictated

I dictate with microphone into iphone text messages frequently. Recently the microphone has started adding the word "catch" or "catch up" to what I have dictated, always at the beginning of a sentence, or at a pause in the dictation. It gets the rest of the sentence right. This is not a case of the microphone functionality misunderstanding what I have said. It is an addition to what has been said. I have to delete these extra words. Any ideas on fixing or what is going on?





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Posted on Oct 28, 2019 9:28 AM

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Dec 3, 2019 5:32 AM in response to barbarafromoceanside

This error seems to have something to do with Keyboard settings in General Settings. As suggested by posts from BadBernie, I started playing around with turning off a combination of Keyboard settings for my iPhone and iPad and have found what I think (fingers crossed) fixes the problem. It is not a proper fix, since these settings should be usable, but for now it seems to keep Catch phrases (LOL, not funny!) from dropping in uninvited.


Your mileage my vary, but I have Enable Caps Lock, Predictive, Slide to Type, and Character Preview turned off. Trick is to try disabling until you get the results you want.

Nov 3, 2019 6:16 PM in response to MJFl

I've had this problem on my desktop since 10-24. I can literally put the dictation on and just let it run until it shuts itself off, and it will create a string of these words. Words and phrases that I've gotten so far include:  

“catch,” "catchup," "catchy," "catcher," "A Chachi," "Chatchai," “are chips,” “or Chata,” “or chat,” "achieve, Kate, " “are Chuchu,” "Katje," “are Chachi,” “are Chachi a Chachi,” “Are Chatchai,” “are Chachi catch,” “Catch up catch,” “Are catching,” “catch up,” “Catcher catch,” “Catching,” “capitol catch," “a Chuchu,” “a Chachi,” “are Chutcha,” “Achoo,” “catchup,” “Can,” “Catch that,” “a Chachi catch,” “A chachos,” “a Chachi, catch up,” “Catch up catcher catch up,” “Catchy catcher,” “are Chachu," "are cheap," "or check"... the stranger ones once or twice, the simpler ones multiple times, the simplest ones many times.


There's no confusion whatsoever about this being an Apple issue; there's nothing else it can be, with multiple people getting it repeatedly on different devices and operating systems. I get it with every browser, every application, EVERYWHERE. Even dictating a search term in the Finder! This could also be the result of a hacker, I guess, although you'd think that Apple would catch onto that pretty quickly... No pun intended!

Nov 22, 2019 6:35 PM in response to tluger

It's happening for me with ANY dictation on my iPhone, whether it's text messages, emails, or on FB Messenger ... so it has to be an Apple issue and it definitely started after I accepted that stupid iOs update. I had held out for a long time & finally gave in. Installed an update yesterday or the day before hoping it would finally be corrected ... NO SUCH LUCK. It happens even in brief pauses when I know I didn't say a single word. And no background noise.

Nov 27, 2019 7:29 PM in response to chazchuckcharliecharles

Sorry for taking so long but I have been very busy.


I have been following 3 discussions about this issue through the whole month of November. The discussion that I myself started has some posts about an effective bypass. I accidentally marked the question as SOLVED, so after that I became seriouly dedicated to find some kind of "solution" because everybody in the Communities told me there was no way to correct my mistake and mark it NOTSOLVED. The whole discussion is 4 pages long, but you only should have to read the last page or last 2 pages.

Here is where you can read page 4:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250787190?page=4

Nov 22, 2019 5:23 PM in response to ChrissyBarr

iPhone X, still running iOS 12 something. “Catch up” inserted in messages for several days now with Siri. I really didn’t expect to see others having the same problem, thought it was maybe something in my phone. My warranty just ran out so I’m glad it’s a software glitch that should be corrected soon hopefully.

My assumption is that it is part of the code that tells the software to catch up with my Dick Tation ( oh that’s really funny – Siri added that instead of the word dictation) but somebody forgot to make it just code and not an actual phrase. Just my hypothesis, will be interesting to see if that’s the problem.


As great as Apple is I can’t believe how bad Siri is.

Nov 29, 2019 7:18 PM in response to Nutzatwerk

I have been following 3 discussions about this issue through the whole month of November. The link at the end of this post take you to a discussion that I started that led to a way to get around this problem for me. The whole discussion is 4 pages long, but you only should have to read the last page or last 2 pages.

Here is where you can read page 4:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250787190?page=4

Nov 16, 2019 6:31 AM in response to MJFl

Adding my voice to the chorus here. I’m not sure if this started happening for me on my old iPhone 6s after I upgraded to iOS 13 or if it began when I purchased my new iPhone 11 Pro last week. In any event, it is quite peculiar. The word catch or catcher or catchy is inserted typically when I pause for too long while dictating. It is definitely an issue for me in Apple Mail, but I haven’t noticed if it is occurring in other applications where I regularly enter text.

Nov 24, 2019 1:18 PM in response to mary jfromrogersville

Intriguing theory, Mary, A developer might introduce weird but recognizable behaviors into a program to trace execution paths in the code. I myself am an IBM retiree who worked for nearly 30 years as a developer on many complex software products. I often used this technique for debugging, but never in code that was already released to customers.😇 

It becomes a bug when you fail to remove the “trace” and it may be lurking in some rare and obscure logic path. If this is what happened, my hope is that the problem symptoms we discuss here will help someone locate that path so it can be fixed.

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