Speech to Text

Hello MakeItSoNumberOne,

To turn off punctuation being added to dictated text, these steps from Dictate text on iPhone should help:

As you speak to insert text, iPhone automatically inserts punctuation for you. You can insert emoji by saying their names (for example, “mind blown emoji” or “happy emoji”).

Note: You can turn this setting off by going to Settings  > General > Keyboard and turning off Auto-Punctuation.

Turning this off should stop the commas and periods being added. Of course, you will need to add them yourself.

Have a good day.

MakeItSoNumberOne,

Thanks for the update! We're glad to hear that you were able to get the issue taken care of with the previously provided steps.

Please feel free to reach back out to the Apple Support Communities if you have any other questions.

Take care!

I am having this problem also, and it’s driving me crazy. It is adding commas all over the place. If it can’t be done correctly, then they need to eliminate this feature in a bug fix. Mine has also been doing something where when I tap the microphone button, it duplicates what I just dictated and pastes it in at the end.

I spend 2 to 3 times what it takes me to send a message to correct all of the problems with the dictation right now. It’s also can’t tell proper usage of it’s vs. its, their vs. they’re, were vs. we’re. Apple needs to get some actual English grammar professionals to work on this problem.

It wouldn’t let me post the picture for the Shatner comma, meme, but you might look it up for laugh. And see, it just inserted a comma where it didn’t need to be! It’s also been de-capitalizing letters at the beginning of sentences. It will dictate the entire sentence, then IT will go back and screw things up and make them wrong—doesn’t matter if I used speech-to-text or typing the message. I don’t know what’s changed, but something’s happened for the worse.

It is also is way more sensitive and picking up voices in the background and trying to add them to my messages. It’s never done that in the past.

That worked, thank you. I was about to chuck my iPhone in the lake! This should not be the default setting because it’s just not ready for primetime. It is so embarrassing to me to send messages with improper grammar to my friends.

I just found out from a couple emails in my inbox that my original posts were removed almost immediately after I posted them. I thought it was a glitch in the app, but apparently they were being removed because I made comments about a policy or feature. It will not let me remove any of my posts from this thread. Although the William Shatner meme really does illustrate the problem well.

I do have a legitimate issue with the commas, which is why I posted on this thread. I do find it frustrating to have to correct every single message that I dictate because of this new “feature,” in addition to some other issues with speech-to-text. I have been able to use this feature well for years, but something has changed in this iOS update that is making it not work correctly. I don’t know how to communicate that to Apple, but there is a problem.

The new speech-to-text issue, explained.