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Dictation errors

My dictation was working perfectly until about 2 or 3 iOS upgrades ago. I’m having problems with dictation not capitalizing the first word of a sentence or paragraph, and it consistently puts a period behind my surname. The quality of the spelling is considerably worse as well. If there was an error, I used to be able to highlight the word and replace it with a capitalized version or a corrected spelling version and that no longer happens. The choices for the replacement word, especially with capitalization do not appear.


when I say I, it types are. When I say has, it types Hass. (See there is no capitalization at the beginning of this paragraph). sometimes after I correct the capitalization error, it will revert to the incorrect uncapitalized word. see there is no capitalization at the beginning of this nor the last sentence either.


I turned off Siri and turned it on again. I think it is a bit better but it’s not consistently better.


I pretty much dictate everything whenever possible, and I love it. It has become quite cumbersome because of all the corrections I now have to do.


any ideas? Is there a Dictionary that my dictation access is that I need to reinstall?? (The beginning of this paragraph was capitalized and then it took away the capitalization of the word any).


Thank you for your responses.

Posted on Feb 4, 2020 7:29 AM

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Posted on Feb 4, 2020 7:55 PM

Thanks, I already had the update. Each new update seems to bring new problems. Another thing that goes wrong is if I highlight a word and I want to capitalize it I used to touch the capitalization button and I would get the option to capitalize, that no longer works either. Definitely a mystery.

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