Is it just me or is voice to text getting worse?

Among other frustrations, when I write a reply and Emma trying to edit it Lola multiple errors it produces I cannot scroll back to the beginning of the message. Did I hear that there was an apple feedback somewhere where company employees actually read text? This is awful. And as you say it’s getting worse. In my case it’s actually changing text and adding profanities After you press send. The capital letters such as in the word ‘after’ above, occur whenever your microphone turns itself off and you have to turn it back on again, the next word is capitalized.

Yes it’s horrible; in fact I have given up trying to use it except for very short messages. Not only does it fail to understand my speech (and I use other programs that understand me quite well) but after I get it all set up and press “send”, it changes the text in a byzantine way, even adding profanity! One thing several people have mentioned, the appearance of a capital where it doesn’t belong, is caused when the microphone shuts itself off and you have to restart it, the first letter is always capitalized. After I have dictated this note I cannot scroll back to edit it. Come on Apple— you’re supposed to be an industry leader!

I have the capitalization problem in spades. It seems to capitalize as a response to taking the time to breathe. It also De- capitalizes on occasion, and the most maddening thing is that it will read write stuff that's perfect just as I hit send. Sometimes the language isn't even allowed on TV.

So how do we get Apple's attention on this? I saw that thank you for it, but I never saw the instructions. Thanks

I’ve been using dictation for years and lately it’s been so bad I have to tell you! there isn’t an example, I will leave the air I said error into this previous The previous four words were put in after I had dictated was correct, it overwrites what he thinks should be there. This must be a machine learning but who’s the teacher? Machine taking over

I have been looking for this thread forever, every time I have searched the results were old - like there is never an issue with Apple! I have seen correct sentences transform after I press send, entire paragraphs magically erase and rewrite themselves, text jumps around as it's editing itself even though nothing seems to change. Now it is adding a space before the sentence and highlighting everything just dictated. It capitalizes where it isn't necessary and sometimes will start a sentence with a lower case. It randomly changes the insertion point. And the keyboard sometimes switches to numbers for no reason. I so hate this product and the arrogant way that the problem is always the user's issue and not the bad engineering. With Siri I have had the text of the request be correct and the action be different. It often can't find the correct person. Sometimes a Siri request will correctly transcribe and find the right person, but then open a blank text. It's like there is nobody home. And some of these actions should be able to be done without the internet. You literally can't ask it to dial a contact without good internet, which was something flip phones could do.

Thanks, @IdrisSeabright. All done!

It only takes a moment to do this and will at least bring the problem to Apple’s attention, so....

Please can anyone else with this problem do the same? Thank you

phoner57 wrote:

I am considering a switch because of this issue. Perhaps the only way to "cross test" is to jump ship and try it.

You should always buy the tool that best meets your needs.

Hello again IdrisSeabright,

I just wanted to say a big thank you to you for taking the time and trouble to look into this issue for me and try to help. I didn't actually know there was an Apple Feedback page as such, so you have also helped me learn something new today!

All these support / discussion pages are a really excellent resource and have provided me with great, easy-to-understand answers to all sorts of Mac-related issues.

Thank you again.

Mary

This is in reply to anyone iPhone, I have a iPhone X brand new December 2017 every time I try to speak a text it completely says different things.

For example I text my daughter her name is Emily and it said I was calling Williams Smith I don’t know where I got any of this from.

I am shocked at how bad the voice to text is!!! I moved over to apple from android and this in my experience is the worst issue I have. Android was 10 times better at voice to text

In a busy world, simple productivity tasks like this are so important

Yes. This seems to be happening even when I have Bluetooth completely turned off! For sure when Bluetooth is on it ***** even more. But yes when I first got an I phone many years ago, it seem to be 90 to 95% accurate, And now I have an iPhone 7 Plus.And I’m lucky if I get half that accuracy now.

YES! It has gotten so much worse lately, which is shocking considering that technology is supposed to improve over time. Plus when I’ve been texting by hand and then start using the Siri typing, it starts my word off capitalized even if there is no period before it. So annoying!!! Wish I didn’t update

I hope you get your issue resolved!

Worse than ever 2017 end, December , It’s taking more time to correct dictation than to type it out

In my experience, it has definitely gotten worse with each new iOS. I have a Samsung phone and it is WAY BETTER at dictating text than the iPad. Do something please, Apple!