Since updating to IOS17, when I use voice to text, it often cuts out the beginning of what I dictate, or leaves out whole words, or does not translate the last sentence. Its like it cant process the full sentences or starts dictating 3 words into what I am saying.
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This started after last nights update 17.4. Idk why they do updates knowing things that people use daily won’t work. This is upsetting to me in alot of ways. Being disabled dictation is sometimes the only way I can talk to people.
Same issue..however… mine will duplicate entire sentences sometimes twice in one text message!it also will miss entire blocks of what I’ve dictated…very frustrating when driving and trying to obey hands free laws and the hands free dictate features not working properly
It also sensors my language is anyone else having this issue? I’ve watched YouTube on how to fix this and none of them have worked. Wondering if anyone has heard if there’s an update coming to address it because it seems to be pretty global.
People are getting my text because I don’t typically check them after I voice them think I’m repeating myself
Glad that worked for you! I couldn’t see past step three. What was the rest of the instruction?
I’ve got Grammarly installed on my phone with keyboard full access and access to the microphone. I think that was slowing it down. I’ve turned it off for now and will keep testing.
I have been having the same problem as almost everyone else on this forum with voice to text not working or not working correctly. I tried changing the keyboard that didn’t work. But I just read what someone posted about other Bluetooth devices that may be connected to my phone causing the problem. Sure enough when I opened the Bluetooth settings it showed that my earbuds were still connected and once I disconnected them voice to text worked fine.
I had the same problem, although I do not use Siri directly. I fixed it by going into settings, Siri, Siri and dictation history, and clicked delete. It immediately started working, so maybe this is the issue?
Has anyone considered that this is not a mistake? I noticed that if I’m on Facebook or YouTube the efficiency of the voice to text decreases exponentially. I think that they don’t want you to write certain words, so the spellcheck just suggest words that don’t even exist. I don’t think it’s as innocent as everyone seems to think it is. Apple is very smart, and these things are done for a reason.
Buffylovesfood wrote:
Has anyone considered that this is not a mistake? I noticed that if I’m on Facebook or YouTube the efficiency of the voice to text decreases exponentially. I think that they don’t want you to write certain words, so the spellcheck just suggest words that don’t even exist. I don’t think it’s as innocent as everyone seems to think it is. Apple is very smart, and these things are done for a reason.
Why would Apple care what you post on Facebook? Are you suggesting that Apple and Meta are somehow in league with each other to censor you? It is, if nothing else, an amusing idea.
@Cyclik on page 1 - BRO!! This Worked!!! OMG thank you so much. I was getting ready to chuck my iPhone across the room because the dictation was so bad. I followed your instructions, deleted the US-English keyboard and replaced it with Canada-English and now the dictation is flawless!! And this is with me having slight laryngitis atm! :D
Cannot thank you enough.
NOTE - the only Visual difference is that when I tap the Dictation button it now turns the whole keyboard int a voice-recognition machine, showing the "sound waves" etc. Just a note so others can expect that as well. Just tap the screen (sound waves) again to turn off dictation when you're done. :)
I have noticed the decline in voice dictation since my iPhone 6s Plus was updated from iOS 10. Every year it got worse and worse and worse, and now it's become pretty much unusable. i've noticed it is much worse on certain apps than others. I don't understand why Apple feels like it's AI has a better idea of what we are trying to say versus what we are actually saying. The irony is that it gets everything correct and then as you're looking at what you've dictated, you can literally see it changing things without you requesting it to do so. It's lunacy. it makes you appear as if you were completely illiterate. It's time to go back to physical at this point.
Little late to the party here but yes, I agree. Talk to text dictation is useless. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why it insists on cutting out the millisecond I pause talking. For some reason, it’s not doing it now on this website but if I try to talk into the Google search bar, it’ll cut out the second I stop speaking. It’s so frustrating I literally am considering switching back to an android because I’m so sick of dealing with this garbage. Having to hit dictation literally five times just to get out one little sentence because I didn’t say it fast enough is insane. I can’t be the only one having this issue.
Yes, please! Anyone with this issue please submit a support request. My talk to text is all but useless at this point and when I contacted support about it a month ago, I figured it would be a well-known issue and he would have no problem understanding what I was talking about but the guy literally told me that nobody else has had any issues with it. Then I looked it up myself and lo and behold. Many people had reported issues. Obviously the guy just straight up lied to me. Please submit support tickets for anything related to voice to text!!
Submitting one now.
Same! Set keyboard to Australia and it works again. Apps like Duolingo still don’t work.
Its odd that I have had this for months, yet some are just getting this issue now ?
thank you! This works! I've been trying for 2 days to figure out how to fix this.
iPhone Voice to text issue on iOS 17
