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Kyzmett Author

Level 1

28 points

iPhone Voice to Text punctuation not working - iOS 17 Update

Has anybody else noticed that the punctuation when using voice to text is suddenly really terrible? I’m fully disabled with hand disabilities that make corrections not just difficult, but exceedingly painful, and suddenly voice to text is adding periods, where I don’t want periods, commas, where I don’t want commas, doesn’t capitalize the first letter on sentences, and is generally so much worse than it was before I updated.

The update I currently have is 16.1.2. I need it to stop. 16.1.2 broke my home screen, my ability to stream on almost all of my streaming services through HDMI, and my ability to speak and have my iPhone translated into a legible sentence. the home screen is just annoying, but the other two are something that severely impacts the disabled community, and I am so disappointed in Apple.

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dear Apple, please understand that this is not just an annoying bug, it is a bug that causes me severe pain from having to fix the problem, and strips me of my ability to communicate clearly if I don’t fix the problem. I was so grateful for voice to text before, but not now. please do something.

iPhone 11, iOS 16

Posted on Dec 13, 2022 5:23 AM

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DWA Dino

Level 1

8 points

Posted on Feb 17, 2023 11:22 AM

Voice dictation is completely broken now. Commas and sentence breaks appear for no particular reason. Apple voice dictation has always been problematic, but now it is virtually unusable. Please, fix it.

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PWK20

Level 1

8 points

Mar 30, 2023 3:34 AM in response to viaccess

I didn’t realize we could turn off auto-punctuation. A Godsend! Thanks for pointing that out.

emptyo

Level 1

12 points

Apr 5, 2023 9:12 AM in response to gregin160

Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > and turn off Auto-Punctuation under Dictation. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard and turn off Smart Punctuation under All Keyboards.

Apr 11, 2023 12:52 PM in response to Kyzmett

Voice to text for messages and email used to be great. Now there are so many mistakes I must manually correct that it has become largely useless.

Ccfrog

Level 1

8 points

Apr 23, 2023 12:34 PM in response to Kyzmett

I totally agree. I am visually impaired, and now I am forced to type every thing. Heck even Siri thought I wanted to call 911. It writes whatever it wants,😡🙄

bdbnj

Level 1

8 points

Jun 15, 2023 10:09 AM in response to Kyzmett

Completely agree! While I appreciate the fact that they’ve made an effort to improve punctuation, since most people do not seem to use commas, it now breaks up every sentence.