iPhone dictation adding random commas after update

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

ZephyrDean wrote:

I would much rather ask for a comma than be given seven I didn’t ask for please.

Then turn off the feature. Instructions have been provided in the thread.

Apple please sort this out.

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Hi all, so I went into settings and turned off, enable dictation and auto punctuation, and then turn my phone off and on. I tried sending a text where I begin with, “ Hi there, Lisa” - and it still put the comma after hi, there instead of Lisa! I swear, it never used to do this before the update. That said, I decided to take a deep dive into the Google, and my findings are saying that saying, “Hi there, Lisa,” is the correct way! I don’t have a lot of occasions to write formal text or email, and I write the way I speak, in a formal setting I’ve always thought I had decent grammar. But the following is from mlastyle.com. I have never heard of this, but MLA stands for modern language association. This was not the only place I went but to note, Grammarly said the same thing, and so did some other business writing blog. Anyway, here it is:

https://style.mla.org/greetings-direct-address/

so, that “,” is right apparently! I know I didn’t pay attention in school, but has it always been this way/when did this happen?? Again, when needed? I’ve always thought I could call up the correct grammar, but this is news to me.

also, even after turning those settings on and off, dictation is still inserting, the random commas. In fact, please take note above where, in the first sentence of this dictated message, there was a comma inserted after the word “off”, and even though my sentence is casual, this is wrong! This is ungrammatical… Or is it non-grammatical??!!

It does the same with me and it is extremely annoying. It puts commas in ridiculous places like after a first name and before the surname. It puts commas in even when I haven't paused for breath. It also often misses out the first word of the sentence.  

Also, it will put the correct word that I have dictated, and then when I'm a bit further down the text I look over what I have already dictated and it's changed some of the words to ones which make no sense. You have to be really careful that you check over what you have dictated before you send it.

The same thing was happening to me, and the only solution I was given was to turn off auto punctuation. I shouldn’t have to turn off anything because Apple sold us a product that said works, so if it doesn’t work as intended, then they should’ve never released it.

I turned it off, and it was still happening, but less. But also stopped adding any punctuation at all in a lot of places. So I would have to go back in anyway and edit punctuation back in.

It’s a faulty product. And now with the release of 16.6, it’s all happening again. Commas everywhere. And it’s not inserting itself during a pause. I purposely spoke a sentence as if it were all one word and it’s still added all kinds of commas. It may not seem like a big deal to some of the posters on here, but when you use a feature every day, it gets frustrating very quickly when it does not work. I paid a lot of money for all the features on the phone to perform as described and they do not.

GeoFan49 wrote:

Come on, Apple!

Anytime I make a very brief pause between two words there is a comma inserted into my dictated text message. Please fix this, Apple?

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Scroll up to the 12-28-22 post from Myxptlk. Those instructions to turn off the auto dictation work

David, read the above thread and you'll see the fix.

Hi Jen - I just experimented with what someone had said above a couple of years ago. He was using the term ‘full stop’ for the period and it works. No more calling out your monthlies in the office!

I watched WWDC23 and with IOS 17 it auto punctuates when dictating.

I have exactly the same problem described above. I keep my iPhone, and iPad updated, and this problem only started happening after I updated recently. It seems to happen across apps— for example, see that comma above after the word “iPhone.” I sure didn’t put that in.

The dictation feature on Apple devices is horrendous, and is getting worse year-by-year. The problem is that people will buy Apple devices, regardless of how awful they are.

As an example I used dictate to write this response. I had to go back and edit nearly every sentence to remove excess of commas and problems throughout. For context, I have no accent and speak very clearly and slowly.

Why would they spend money to fix something that they don’t care about

It makes me laugh (sardonically) whenever I have a problem with an Apple computer or phone and I come to the official "discussions.apple.com" website to find the solution, because the exact same thing happens every time -- somebody asks a straightforward question about the exact same problem that I have and then the sadistic Apple "expert" predictably answers their question with a series of super annoying, extremely specific technical questions that makes that person jump through a series of digital hoops to provide information to the expert before they even attempt to answer the question. (And then of course 9 times out of 10 they somehow never manage to actually answer the question, and some random "civilian" actually winds up providing the solution.)

I think I would start crying if I ever saw an "expert" actually answer the question asked with a simple, definitive and forthright solution without first engaging in the passive-aggressive "answer a bunch of my questions first" dance of digital death.

If the experts are such experts, why can't they just try a bunch of stuff on their end and figure out the solution all by themselves? Inquiring minds would like to know.

While I normally love the Apple updates, the recent one puts random punctuation in my speak texts. As somebody who pays a lot of attention to grammar, this drives me crazy! If I don’t double check a message and I send it out like that, I am sure that people wonder why I insert commas everywhere.

Annoying, frustrating & beyond my understanding as to why they would’ve added that “feature”. I also preferred when the microphone button would shut off automatically shortly after you quit speaking.