iPhone dictation adding random commas after update

Taylor0519 wrote:

I've had the same issue since the last update too. It's very annoying and I have to spend so much time correcting all the commas. I hope they fix this issue soon.

Why don't you just turn off Settings>General>Keyboard>Smart Punctuation (as has been mentioned several times in this thread)?

If people would stop complaining and pay attention to possible solutions, they will notice that Bazooka1967 has the solution! I tried it on my iphone--searched in settings for "smart punctuation," went there and turned off both "smart punctuation" and "auto punctuation," and voila! I no longer have those irritating periods and commas appearing in random places when I dictate my texts! Try it, you'll like it!! (Thanks, Bazooka1967!)

Youtookallthegoodnames wrote:

Thanks, Apple, I failed? English! because, o,f this🤣

Well, you certainly failed to read any of the rest of this thread, particularly the parts that explain how to turn off Smart Punctuation. Also, if you're counting on a computing device to give you the correct answers on how to write properly and you didn't proofread and correct it, you probably deserved to fail. "LOL".

What a most helpful reply.

Most people look for an answer to a question and have not the time to read every response in detail to a topic. My iOS devices suddenly started putting commas or periods after every word, and without significant pauses in speaking, dictating exactly as I had been previously. Something changed. If you have a response to address the question, a simple answer is appreciated. Something difficult to find on the Internet these days.

Getting commas and periods after every word wow dictating text, and speaking exactly the same as I had been previously so, something has changed. I saw somewhere a mention of smart punctuation, but why should one need to change this when it worked perfectly previously? If someone has an answer to a question, a simple response would be appreciated. Hopefully we might discover why this is happening. An update will probably fix this, I suspect.

What a most helpful reply.

Most people look for an answer to a question and have not the time to read every response in detail to a topic. My iOS devices suddenly started putting commas or periods after every word, and without significant pauses in speaking, dictating exactly as I had been previously. Something changed. If you have a response to address the question, a simple answer is appreciated. Something difficult to find on the Internet these days.

Seth77 wrote:

Most people look for an answer to a question and have not the time to read every response in detail to a topic.

So it's okay to expect people who do read threads and post answers to keep doing it because people are too "busy" (i.e. lazy or impatient) to read the answers already provided? Got it.

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.

I don't know who sent this reply but I am putting it at the top again. And thank you to whoever did it because it is so freaking annoying

Go to Settings>General>Keyboard and turn off Smart Punctuation and Auto-Punctuation.

I read all of this discussion, and yes turned off smart punctuation. Now, if there's even a very slight pause the microphone turns off and stops taking any more dictation. Have to keep turning the microphone on to finish a phrase or sentence. Again, this is something new and did not occur previously. Best, Seth

Seth77 wrote:

I read all of this discussion, and yes turned off smart punctuation. Now, if there's even a very slight pause the microphone turns off and stops taking any more dictation. Have to keep turning the microphone on to finish a phrase or sentence. Again, this is something new and did not occur previously. Best, Seth

I don't know what to tell you. I'm not seeing that. I have to pause for about 5-10 seconds at least before the microphone turns off.

I am having an extreme problem with voice to text dictation. It puts random commas everywhere, it capitalizes letters that do not need to be capitalized, it uses words that are completely unknown to mankind, it spellchecks correct words into misspelled words, it uses words that are not at all like what I said, it changes words when it does not like what I am dictating, it leaves out every other word I am saying even when speaking slowly, put random spacing between words...it is just a messy situation that causes me to have to go back and completely re-grammar and re-punctuation what is written after my dictation. I'm wondering how a company can put little tiny computers on someone's wrist, but they cannot program an appropriate voice to text dictation feature. It is ironic that I'm using voice to text now, and it is working completely correctly. Why is that? If this is how AI is supposed to be, I think we are all doomed.

Workaround: Turn off "Auto-Punctuation" in Keyboards under Settings. (leave "Enable Dictation" on)

Same issue. Drove me bananas. Found this on reddit- worked for me!

Settings > General > Keyboard > Under DICTATION, turn off "Auto-Punctuation"

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