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

Interes. My last sentence was cut off. I said that even under the best of circumstances it doesn't work as well as Google and that sentence didn't come through.

PS: the words “Emma” and “Lola” in the above message could not be edited out because the message won’t scroll.

PS: Yes, I have turned off auto completion and predictive switches and it makes no difference

It’s frustrated me to the point I’ll keep this phone because it’s 256 gigs but I will not be getting another one and Leslie address this Sue, Siri CCC

That is a good idea. It’s just frustrating to have to do that because I paid almost $1,000 for this phone and it can’t even do what one of its apps can do.

I meant to say this response was unhelpful but it seems to have kept it as a helpful and will not let me undo it? (All dictated of course) as it is so much quicker and more efficient than typing. at least it used to be, now I have to keep going back and correcting the mistakes, and I'm not sure if that is slow or not than typing the words in the first place. So for example for this particular paragraph above I had to make 4 corrections. I think you are right about the microphone as my 2008 MacBook is the worst followed by my 2010 iPad and then my six month old iPhone 6s. So on thinking again I think I shall leave it as a helpful as you did mention the microphone.

TrackMaker wrote:

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!

Apple is not reading here. If you want them to know how you feel, use the Feedback page:

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I experienced the same issues after purchasing my iPhone 7 Plus.

I’ve been playing around with my friends phone and it works way better than my Apple devices translations.

Our IP I experienced the same issues after purchasing my iPhone 7 Plus.

I’ve been playing around with my friends phone and it works way better than my Apple devices translations.

RIP Apple

Hello Android

I am one of 1 billion people and what I have to say really doesn’t matter to Apple. But I will admit that I will not purchase garbage anymore. These phones are way too expensive for that. A thousand dollars!

I KNOW for a fact the dictation on this SE is worse than on the 5C I got four years ago. Just got an SE in October 2017. This newer phone is dumber than the old one. It’s frustrating to use dictation, even though it’s much more officiant, because it makes so many mistakes.

Instead of recognizing some words with several syllables, this phone substitutes 3-4 small words that don’t make any sense together. Whenever I dictate a plural word, this phone always spells it with an apostrophe plus letter s (“‘s”). It rephrases perfectly good sentences so they don’t make sense, changes perfectly good words into other ones, and capitalizes words in the middle of sentences for no rhyme or reason. It’s as if Siri fancies herself an English teacher, always wants to correct me, but her corrections are wrong. I was an English major, and her understanding of spelling and grammar is elementary school level at best.

This is a more expensive phone than my last one. I would think the functions with higher tech iPhones would get better, not worse!

I haven't quite figured out what the voice to text algorithm does, but it's clearly not solely based on word to word translation. It's trying to do something like guess the context of a sentence or phrase and make sense in its own little dictionary, which as often as not isn't even close to the meaning intended. The biggest mystery to me is why corrected text is changed at the last minute, just before it is sent, Into a baroque and profane jargon, so you can’t edit it. This is such an obvious bug that you would think Apple would notice it and eliminate it. But they haven't and they didn't. The other thing that puzzles me about Apple is that even if they choose not to reply to the user discussions, at the very least they ought to let you know that they're

reacting to them. This is not like a company that prided itself on customer relationships.

I switched to iOS into thousand and one due to a stroke and I’ve always used dictation for communication I have used several dictation programs they had problems with learning this latest update to iOS 11 has made it useless. When I get to it shows the right words and then change it to garbage including swearing words. I don’t know how many emails I’ve sent out that of been corrected from the computer after it was sent. They’ve also removed you used to be able to swipe up to highlight the whole page and have it read to you. Apple used to be interested in excess ability. You’re certainly not looking after us know it all

I don't use voice-to-text because I can't bring myself to talk to devices. 😁

However, the use of an external mic is recommended for best results. Or perhaps there is something odd about your voice? 😉

I'm having the same problem. I feel like it used to be better than it is now, but it would seem odd that it would get worse. I started to wonder if my voice/speech had changed and that was causing problems, but since I'm seeing other people asked the question maybe not!

Do you have a fan or an air conditioner turned on in the room in which you're using your computer? I find that either of those wreck havoc on voice recognition.

It's on my iPhone, so it's all over the place. Inside and quiet, outside and noisy. Again, this isn't about the fact that it doesn't always work as expected, it's that it seems like it USED to be better than it is now and my environment has not changed.