iPhone Voice to text issue on iOS 17

Thewie68 has the right idea....this is the only thing that worked for me. in fact this is better now then it was before using just the english one i have reported this to apple as well.

Thewie68 told them your bill will be in the mail

Honest question here... Is it correct to assume that if you are running the Australian or New Zealand keyboards, you will need to speak with an Australian or New Zealand accent to have good dictation results?

My iPhone 11 got the 17.4 update last night and I couldn't dictate voice messages today.

Tried a bunch of stuff with no luck. But found this thread and followed this instructions in the post with screen shots to change the keyboard to Australian( English ). This worked for me. Also turning punctuation off and back on improved that also.

As a side comment: The screen shots in that post are dated 2017. Has this problem existed since then? Apple needs to figure out what is going on.

Immediate Fix-

Settings > General > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard > other iPhone keyboards > English (Australia) - tap to get a ✔️

Use globe button at bottom left of keyboard and switch to English (Australia)

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On this subject.

I have almost wrecked my F350 Ford truck multiple times trying to type my texts.

Before I upgraded to a iPhone 15 pro max and ios17.3.1. All I had to do was press the little microphone and I could dictate my text without having to type.

Reading this discussion. Sounds like the dictation option has been taken away?

Does this mean a law suite could be brought against apple if they caused an accident through this decision?

Hopefully I got mine fixed. Apparently dictate is off by default when you upgrade to 17. If you go to settings. Then general. Then keyboard. Towards the bottom you can cut on dictation.

Mine is on now. Time will tell if it dictates properly.

This problem is making my phone useless to me, I dictate *everything* and used to use Siri dozens of times a day but neither is working consistently, Siri offered me web pages that didn't even match my questions, can't make simple appointments and couldn't even do a timer for me, the dictation is missing the beginning and end of sentences and even with predictive text off - when I dictate "is there a leprechaun emoji" it types 'is there a (inserts clover emoji)" and wont even type the words! I changed the keyboard to Canada but it's still awful. My iphone 10XR was better than the iphone 15!!

I am having the same issue and I tried changing it to non-US English and it seems to be slightly better but I am still missing entire sentences or words.

It’s almost like it knows what I’m trying to say but it doesn’t want me to say that so it will leave out certain words that completely changes the meaning of the sentence.

One example from earlier today I said I really hate something and it took the word hate out and changed it to want. It initially said hate.

OK and when dictating that previous sentence it also took the word hate out both times.

So it’s doing the same thing for Canadian English I guess I will switch to Australia or New Zealand.

there’s one difference that I’ve noticed is that if you use the dictation functionality on your Mac OS, the result is much better than your phone. so that leaves me to believe whatever framework or whatever technologies that Apple is using to take your speech and convert to text is not functioning the same or something else with their dependencies that have to be fixed. i’m not sure if they’re using their own for some of this or some other companies but like I said on the actual Mac, it’s less error prone.

Strangely, this worked. Honestly, I don't understand why replacing the keyboard affects the dictation. But thank you. I was getting duplicate words, it was dropping words, it was getting stuck spinning when I would try to do and punctuation. And I dictate a lot. It was horrible. I switched to the Canadian keyboard and the only issue is that it's spelling words slightly differently once in a while. I can sure live with that. It did resolve the mess that the updates and the dictation platform.

Thanks again for the fix!!!

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My iPad dictation stopped working with 17.4, and I did what you suggested here and it worked (thanks!), but then I reinstalled EN US (and deleted EN UK) and it continued to work. So it seems the fix may be just reinstalling the keyboard.

iOS 17.4 I am on now and it's still getting worse, iOS 12 dictation was almost perfect, just needed a few tweaks and now it don't understand anything. Example just yesterday, I was dictating a message, I said "I'll be done in about 20 minutes" this is what the message said: "Call Peter" I looked at it and was like what the ****! So I erased it and said it again. The new message said "I'll be done in 13 minutes" Where is the "about"? And does anyone think 20 sounds like 13? I didn't think so.

Most of the time it's not this bad, most of the time it just deletes words I've said, but I've had similar experiences over and over again in iOS 16 & 17 just like this, it's like they are getting some random crap, another example is if i dictate a person's name, it will add all the info with it if i have it in my contacts, "name, business, sometimes even email and address" just while I'm dictating, aggravating to say the least!

I tried, but to no avail. What i said and what it wrote, "I hope by removing the keyboard and adding it again it will fix it." but it wrote, "By removing the keyboard and adding it it"

I hope they have a fix soon.

What Happens One I, j’ai we Hamon

that sentence was supposed to say “this is what happens when I say “this is what happens.

I removed my French keyboard since it looked like French words were getting thrown in and now I don’t have the option for dictation even though I have dictation on in settings. Just since I did this disastrous upgrade yesterday

I agree it's horrible. it has gotten worse and worse and worse. Words do not show up, words are stuck together, I expected more out of Apple than this. This just justifies my reason for not upgrading to a new iPhone. It's not worth it if the quality of the services are terrible. By the way I had to type in terrible because the speak to text stopped