iPhone Voice to Text punctuation not working - iOS 17 Update

I've been having the same problem. I cannot stand when others try to put punctuation in for me that I did not before. I'm super happy we got a solution to this because Apple was getting it all wrong. If you go into settings, general, keyboard, dictation, switch enable dictation, and switch off auto punctuation. It worked for me!

The shame of it is with all the people that are complaining about this problem with their Apple phones they do absolutely nothing

If the AI they have installed on our phones is any example of its capability it's going to destroy our world

I think Microsoft needs to be held accountable

I never even thought about being disabled with these issues. I’m so sorry for you. I’m not disabled, and it drives me Battie!!! My issues are more along the lines of when I’m trying to correct some thing that I had voice text. When I try to put my cursor somewhere it highlights a whole **** paragraph. And it won’t move to just the word I need to fix unless I hold my space bar down and move it which would be fine, but it doesn’t work out the time it ends up just capitalizing a bunch of CCCC’s and just throwing them in there randomly! And now I have to try to get those out the same way and it’s just impossible and I guess it’s all been since the update before this past one which I haven’t done I have not done the latest. Anybody else having these problems?

Mcfadcat wrote:

I am having the same problem with the punctuation. Also, it is so sensitive. It picks up every word from any surrounding device. This is ridiculous.

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

In addition to everyone's comments, NOW the voice-to-text offers uncommon spellings of people's names and you have to change it to the basic spelling.

Apple needs top hire employees with NO ACCENT to create the database and suggestions for spellings.

Apple dictation doesn’t work at all for me. Spinning wheel then nothing no matter what browser or app I try to use it in. I have my iPhone 15 pro max updated with the latest, dictation was turned off then on and the iPhone has been completely shut down and restarted. Problem persists. Come on Apple!

I just went to my state's accessibility services to try to get help.

Essentially-- Siri's dictation, which worked well in the past, no longer works. I have the same troubles as everyone else-- It capitalizes randomly, sprinkles commas where they don't belong, duplicates text, and though it will type words correctly initially-- it sometimes changes them after a second to be the wrong words. (Even when the wrong word makes no grammatical sense.)

Here are the free solutions I was given. (Essentially, give up on Apple and shift to other software solutions.)

Microsoft's dictation worked much better. Though of course, that's in their software. (Go to the Edit menu and turn on dictation.) The laptop version works GREAT. The iPhone/iPad version work, but a little less well.

Google Chrome's browser has an extension called, "Voice in," that allows users to have 60 minutes of free dictation each day. (And one can buy more.) Unfortunately, this is only available on the desktop version, not the Chrome browser for iPad and iPhone.

And here it is June 2024, and the problem is not fixed. If anything it is worse. I don't understand how Apple could not address this issue. Voice to text used to work, and now it does not work. How does this happen? Apple please, please fix this. It's very difficult for those of us who need to use voice to text. Sometimes I wonder if it's not intentional because it is just so bad. Could you please provide an update on when this will be repaired?

Buffylovesfood wrote:

Apple please, please fix this. It's very difficult for those of us who need to use voice to text. Sometimes I wonder if it's not intentional because it is just so bad. Could you please provide an update on when this will be repaired?

Apple doesn't read here for feedback, nor do they reply here.

If you go to settings- general- keyboard -dictation , you can switch off auto punctuation.

I agree. It used to work fine. Now we have these ridiculous commas inserted apparently at random. Please sort this out Apple!

CRAPPY PUNCTUATION FIXED! Someone else commented this, but I'll reinforce it: Settings > General > Keyboards, then toggle "auto punctuation" to off.

It’s beyond horrible. Unbelievable. Apple, you truly TRULY disappoint with this one. You’re making Android more appealing by the minute.

Agreed!

It’s so they can spy on us better