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Caps Dictation Commands Not Working Anymore

I used to be able to say "all caps" and have dictation capitalize the following word or say "caps on" and have dictation capitalize the first letter of each word. Recently it started just typing out all caps or caps on. This leads me to believe it's recognizing my words correctly but not recognizing them as commands. Anyone else having this issue or have thoughts on a solution?


Thanks,

Dave

iPad, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jun 14, 2012 6:08 PM

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Jul 1, 2012 12:56 AM in response to David Powsner

Well, it's at least good to know that it's not just me. Misery loves company…


This happened to me a few months ago, and I called Apple support, and got up to a higher level of support. I finally had to go back to the solution that one of the earlier levels had given me, which was to turn Siri off and on.


That was the only thing that work. And it did work, but it seemed like I had lost some of this Siri training that had accumulated.


So now, after another few weeks of training, and dictating, this problem has cropped up again. And there seems to be nothing that I can do to fix it. I tried to turn Siri off and then on again solution, I tried a reset all settings, I tried turning on and off the phone, and a few others among the usual suspects of troubleshooting steps.


Nada. Zilch. Nothing.


And I think that the geek's diagnosis is probably correct. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Perhaps even before the new update.

Jul 1, 2012 9:30 AM in response to shakurav

Siri and dictation are two different animals. My iPad has dictation but not Siri. I don't recall whether Siri isn't including the capitalization on my iPhone but dictation on both devices is a definite capitalization problem. I think dictation on the iPad is Dragon. However, I have downloaded the free Dragon dictation app and that DOES work correctly but I do want to use the dictation in notepad and other apps on both devices and not have to translate into one app and copy/paste into another.

Jul 1, 2012 9:23 PM in response to Starbuckeyes

Well, yes and no...


Yes, they are separate in that dictation lives on some devices w/o Siri. But not the other way around. I.e. On my iPhone 4S, there's a single switch in Settings>Siri which is on or off.


If you turn Siri off, the dictation mic icon in the keyboard is gone. Dictation is turned off as a system-wide option. You can still use a speech-to-text app such as Dragon to dictate.


I believe that it was revealed that Nuance was involved in the speech recognition engine that runs both Siri and the iOS dictation.


But I'm with you: I used the free Dragon dictation app for almost two years on my iPhone 4. And while like you, I like it, it's no where near as convenient as having dictation in any place the keyboard appears.


I spent a lot of time with the highest level of Apple support last time, when turning Siri off & on fixed the problem with the caps (and spaces) commands in dictation. Not this time. And I did lose some of the training.

Jul 2, 2012 5:50 AM in response to Starbuckeyes

Yeah....but I just don't find that the Dragon dictation app is up to snuff. It transcribes well, but I have found it to flaky to consider it reliable. In addition, the inconvenience of bouncing back and forth between Dragon and my other apps makes Dragon simply too inconvenient. On the other hand, when dictation properly worked in Pages, it was good enough to handle generation of a 30 page document without generating any concern with me.

Jul 3, 2012 7:08 AM in response to David Powsner

The "no space" command has stopped working, as have the "numeral" and the "letter" commands. Combined with other problems above (e.g., in regard to the "caps" and "no caps" commands, among others), this is getting to be serious. I'm not used to buying products from which features disappear — but that's appearing to be the case, here. I hope this is just a bug and that Apple plans to reinstate these.

Jul 11, 2012 2:31 PM in response to dave.geerdes

Same problem: SIRI is no longer converting "numeral three" into "3". This is especially problematic, as even when "working", SIRI can't make the obvious "3" should match "three" connection. I've disabled SIRI and gone back to regular Voice Control. At least it handles spoken "3"s correctly, though it still has the ridiculous (and years old) "can't un-toggle shuffle" problem.


These are OBSCENE bugs. I'm completely disgusted with Apple today.

Jul 13, 2012 7:33 AM in response to dave.geerdes

And I am having the same issue. Apparently everybody is having this issue, which suggests it is in fact a server problem. This has been driving me nuts. And this discussion has been going on for a few weeks now yet there is no sign of an official Apple response. Does Apple ever monitor these discussions? Do they ever provide official advice or at least some information as to what is going on and when it will be fixed? Or if it will be fixed? Has Apple intentionally disabled these functions for some reason? It's like of like dealing with an airline when your flight is delayed - the airline knows what is going on but is notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to informing the customers. So we just sit around and wonder what the problem is, and whether it is ever going to be addressed. I need my "caps" commands back as I use them all the time!

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