Dictation and Siri stopped in iOS 16

I have the same problem. I used to use dictation when I type in multiple languages (English - UK, French - France and Cantonese - Hong Kong). And after I have updated to the latest version of IOS 16, dictation of all languages becomes not working at all.

Even my Siri is not working. Actually I can use the Hey Siri function in Cantonese - Hong Kong. But when I speak anything or tell Siri any request after I said 'Hey Siri' and Siri responded to me, Siri always processes so long and says 'An error has occurred, please try again'.

I think the Siri and Dictation function has bugs and cannot detect what I have said to both Siri and keyboard dictation, given the fact that my microphone is definitely operating normally!

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I have the same issue with my dictation….. turned my keyboard from English uk to English us and that has helped with the text issues however Siri is still saying g one minute, somethings went wrong etc

BTW switching from US to UK English for keyboard, system, and siri restored some dictation.... it basically works however the punctuation (ex. period) and other commands such as "new line" still dont work.

I was told to download 16.0.3. Didn't work, still have to use English (UK). Frustrating. It works for Google, and English (UK) now works for texting and emails, but I can't get Siri to make a call or send a text.

This also worked for me period I only need to set Siri in the keyboard to be English in the UK

I’m annoyed that my for several days i have been texting with Apple Support and they could not tell me about this temporary solution.

The official Apple response is:

Thank you for letting me know about this workaround, I'm really sorry about this, even if we endorse the use of the discussions, I can only share the official Apple documentation

Come on, Apple. Empower your people. Steve Jobs rolling in his grave.

I had the same issue… Spoke with Apple Support and worked with him for over an hour. We were able to fix my dictation issue by switching to the UK English keyboard but it wasn’t until I read below that I needed to switch language inside Siri and inside my operating system as well to UK English. Everything seems to work fine now as I am waiting for the system upgrade, 16.03 did not fix the issue

It took me a while to figure out, but “period” doesn’t work because that’s not what they call it in British English.. use “full stop”. I’m not sure about new line. Maybe carriage return?

In any case, the UK hack didn’t recognize me as well, and now it has stopped working as well.

I happened upon this same resolution. I updated to iOS 16.0.2 and then jumped on a plane to the UK. Frustrated that my voice to text wasn't working, I switched to the UK version as LEGO Damashii had. I was there for a week, it worked fine, in fact my phone is still set to UK (3 weeks later); however, voice to text has stopped working. If I fiddle with it enough, I can get functionality to temporarily return by going into 'Siri & Search' settings and toggling the first three options all off and then all back on. Obviously, not a solution. (Side note, if you verbally punctuate your 'voice to texts' and are using the UK dictation/keyboard, say "Full Stop" instead of period. )

Fortunately my fix was easier. After reading all of the responses and having no success I decided to shut off dictation and then reboot my phone. Once it fired back up, I turned dictation back on and it has been working fine ever since. Fingers crossed it stays this way because it was super aggravating.

I’d appreciate a long term followup, Stanky. My switch to British worked, and as stated here, moving back to American returned to normal functionality… for a day or so, then back to Siri going deaf.

I’m hoping 16.1 which releases today will fix this. Barring that, continued discussion here would be helpful.

I’ve been having the same issue and saw a response where a user went in and corrected their Siri settings for the preferred language to be “English (US).“ I noticed that mine had changed when the iOS 16 update took place where my default language was identified to be “English (South African).” This was most likely due to me having the voice of Siri be South African. I had to toggle the voice setting back to South African after the correction to English (US). It seems to be working now.

I have this same issue as it appears so do many others. I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max and ever since upgrading to v16.0.3 I've not been able to use Siri nor dictation for the en_US locale (US English). The workaround being spoken about does work by switching to UK English, but this is not sustainable as you have to switch the dictation locale EVERY time you want to dictate something.

This is a HUGE bug that Apple needs to address immediately. Pretty surprised this got missed by QA. Please fix this immediately and thank you!