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I cannot voice dictate and I get a mic symbol with an x on it when I press the mic icon on imessage. Cannot voice dictate in other places such as in notes or to do a browser search. My mic does work because people can hear me on a call.
iPhone 13, iOS 16
binojmatthew Said:
"mic with an x: I cannot voice dictate and I get a mic symbol with an x on it when I press the mic icon on imessage. Cannot voice dictate in other places such as in notes or to do a browser search. My mic does work because people can hear me on a call."
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binojmatthew Said:
"mic with an x: I cannot voice dictate and I get a mic symbol with an x on it when I press the mic icon on imessage. Cannot voice dictate in other places such as in notes or to do a browser search. My mic does work because people can hear me on a call."
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Troubleshooting iPhone Audio:
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binojmatthew Said:
"mic with an x: I cannot voice dictate and I get a mic symbol with an x on it when I press the mic icon on imessage. Cannot voice dictate in other places such as in notes or to do a browser search. My mic does work because people can hear me on a call."
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Just got off the phone with Apple support (great folks) - they acknowledge the issue with dictate (voice to text) and Siri are related and have been being worked on since this past Monday (10/10). The fix is not in 16.0.3 but will be in a future IOS update. They recommended keeping an eye out for the next update. Fingers crossed...
The only thing that has somewhat worked for me was to add English UK to my dictation language. Siri still isn’t working but I can at least talk text. But you can’t say period to end a sentence you have say full stop.
Sorry, this one:
Oct 14, 2022 12:30 AM in response to BrittneyMcD
Ok so I did the following and it fixed my issue.
I deleted “Siri and dictation history” and then re-recorded my voice to enable Siri to recognize it and that seems to have done the trick. I can now voice text in iMessage, Notes, into a browser like Google, etc.
Delete Siri and dictation history on Mac
When you turn on Siri or turn on keyboard dictation, you can choose to share audio recordings of your Siri and dictation interactions on this Mac with Apple. Recordings are collected randomly and aren’t associated with your Apple ID.
You can remove the interactions made on this Mac from Apple servers (you must be connected to the internet).
> System Preferences, then click Siri.Delete Siri and dictation history on Mac - Apple Support
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Ok so I did the following and it fixed my issue.
I deleted “Siri and dictation history” and then re-recorded my voice to enable Siri to recognize it and that seems to have done the trick. I can now voice text in iMessage, Notes, into a browser like Google, etc.
To delete “Siri and dictation history” , go to "Settings", then "Siri and Search", then "Siri and Dictation History", then "Delete Siri & Dictation History". To re-record your voice, go to "Settings", then "Siri and Search", turn off "Listen for Hey Siri"and then turn "Listen for Hey Siri" back on. It will ask you to "Set up Hey Siri" to recognize your voice. After that, it worked for me. You may need to turn off your phone then turn back on.
I'm sure there are different approaches but thanks to the post from binojmatthew
Oct 14, 2022 12:30 AM in response to BrittneyMcD
I was finally able to get dictation to work again.
Tried it as stated. Powered off and on. No change. Thank you for your effort.
One more: Siri is malfunctioning. Responds to Hey Siri, but then says, "one sec... still on it... sorry, something went wrong, please try again". Interestingly, the mic on the Google app works fine and the voice memo app works. Seems to be only related to Siri and voice-to-text apps.
I am having the same issue was curious to see what device you all are on, i am on iphone 12, I wonder if its device specific. I also can not reply to text via apple car, but my apps work. You can also confirm it your mic works correctly when you use audio notes as a test.
Interesting. In my case, it does seem to record voice text when the small ‘microphone X’ icon is present. However, the small ‘microphone X’ icon doesn’t appear right away after tapping the microphone icon—you have to start talking, then the ‘microphone X’ icon appears, then whatever you say after that gets translated from voice to text.
Kind of bizarre setup, you’d expect to tap the microphone and start talking right away straight into talk-to-text, but you have to say random stuff first to get to the recording part.
I’m using the newest iPhone Pro Max so I’d be surprised if it was a lag. Maybe there is a setting we can adjust to begin dictation automatically after microphone icon is tapped and remove the lag.
I deleted the Siri dictation history, re-recorded my voice for Siri again, but nothing changed until I changed the Siri language to English -UK. It worked right away for me and now I have voice to text function back across all apps. Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I haven't switched back to English (United States) to check the function for fear of jinxing things and messing it up.
The different tips and things that I did that I learned here definitely helped meaning that for a literally since I did the last update my mic was not working at all and I live on text messages that I dictate
now, after reading all these and spending an hour and a half playing with my phone, I can now dictate, which is wonderful however, that x just never leaves
mic with an x
