iPhone dictation adding random commas after update

I didn't have this problem on my iPhone 12 pro until I reset all my settings two days ago, and then I went in and turned off auto punctuation to try to stop it from happening, and it's still happening. I don't have auto correct turned on, nor do I have predictive text turned on. It's adding commas in places where they don't make sense when I dictate. I have nothing with commas in my word replacements either, so it isn't that. I have even updated to 16.3.1, and it's still doing it. When dictating this, it put a comma after auto correct. It would have been between auto correct, and turned.

Imjustangry wrote:

Just fix it already. Enough with the discussions and yentering. Thx.

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Meanwhile, have you turned of the smart punctuation setting?

Fabulous suggestion. For me, turning off auto punctuation worked. I am a former English teacher and want to do the correct pronunciation myself via dictation. Have been very irritated until now. Thank you very much!

Still occurring in iOS 17.4.

Come on, Apple! This is serious!!

If I speak identical phrases into Messages or the Notes app, there wind up being random commas added all over the place. They are not aligned with pauses. As I am dictating this comment, I am finding completely different behavior than exist in the aforementioned apps; I have had to fix four things in this sentence alone.

However, if I dictate precisely the same phrase into the safari tile bar, I never see the problem. And Siri seems to have little difficulty understanding the few things that Siri can actually understand.

So Apple, why are you using so many different engines for dictation? It simply makes no sense at all and it is causing millions of users a real pain.

You guys are better than this.

TheChimp wrote:

Still occurring in iOS 17.4.

Come on, Apple! This is serious!!

If I speak identical phrases into Messages or the Notes app, there wind up being random commas added all over the place. They are not aligned with pauses. As I am dictating this comment, I am finding completely different behavior than exist in the aforementioned apps; I have had to fix four things in this sentence alone.

Have you turned off Smart Punctuation? The directions have been provided.

So Apple, why are you using so many different engines for dictation? It simply makes no sense at all and it is causing millions of users a real pain.

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You guys are better than this.

Not everyone who works for Apple is a guy.

Hi Bazooka1967,

At this point, we would recommend reaching out to Apple Support. They will have the necessary tools to investigate into this matter more with you: Get Support.

Take care.

Thank you! I reported this also to Apple and they helped me find the button to turn off autopunctuation. It worked. No more problems.

16.2 update and commas are random and often. This is a glitch in the update, apparently. Frustrating.

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Go to settings. Keyboard. Unselect punctuation. Does the trick.

I have been having the same problem since I upgraded to iOS 16. Not sure which version I started with, but I upgraded to 16.1.2 and the problem persists. Very annoying since I dictate all my texts, emails, notes, etc.

Mine has started adding commas wherever I take a slight pause to think about the rest of the sentence. It's incredibly annoying...especially since I say "comma" wherever I actually want a comma. It would be great if there was a way to turn this off.

Yes this started with the recent update. The algorithm thinks it knows where the commas should go. And, it creates questions with random question marks.

It can’t even get basic tenses right, it sure as heck shouldn’t attempt punctuation. PLEASE TAKE THIS OFF. A misplaced comma can be a dangerous thing. Reference “Eats Shoots and Leaves”!

can you please change this horrible horrible talk text update? Just like everyone else on this thread, and in the community says you add extraneous commas for no reason and the button does not turn off once finish speaking like any other intelligent talk text feature, Apple has taken several steps backwards and made this just an overall awful awful talk text and I find myself having to delete 17 commas. Every effing time I use it, please change this back to what it was, and fix this, what a horrible decision by Apple, though I’m not surprised, considering the direction they’ve taken iTunes, and how they force people into buy new computers with their sneaky upgrades, just another swing, and a miss her Apple, though they probably don’t care because they make so much money, fix this effing problem now further, it says if they removed periods so it’s taken something else that was useful off the table too, it’s really unbelievable how poor this talk text feature is it’s similar to how they rolled out Apple mats, and had to formally apologize. Also, if you notice any grammar mistakes in this post, it’s because I’m using talk text feature, and I have perfect, English and clearly annunciated every single word perfectly