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Budwhite Author

Level 1

28 points

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

Maybe 18 months to 2 years ago I can remember using voice to text and feeling like it translated 90 to 95% of my sentences correctly. Now, when I dictate a sentence, it is very rare for voice to text to translate it correctly. One of the things I've noticed is voice to text will add pronouns my sentences when I haven't said anything. At first I thought maybe I was making little noises that the program was misinterpreting as pronouns, but I have since noticed that it does this even when I'm absolutely sure I haven't made a noise. I think that what's happening is the program will hear a dependent clause and want to make it an independent clause with this subject a verb and a direct object and so add the pronoun either as a subject or direct object. I wonder if the software designers at Apple are doing this on purpose, not to frustrate users, but because they think most people are using it to write simple, declarative sentences.

Also, voice to text will just capitalize random words, especially conjunctions, For no reason I can discern. It just did it!

PS this happens across devices, from my iPhone, to my iPad, To my computer. There's that capitalization bug you again. Also, I swear to God, it just added "you" for no reason.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Feb 1, 2016 8:13 AM

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Mary London

Level 1

43 points

Posted on Nov 27, 2017 1:30 AM

How very Microsoft to question the clarity of @budwhite’s own voice here! (it-can’t-be-our-software-because-it’s-brilliant etc)

Please at least acknowledge that 30 people have now said “me too” having somehow found their way to this “misplaced” thread. It’s not an easy issue to describe and search for either.

And I know many others who will never get this far, but keep asking me why dictation and predictive text are getting LESS accurate and more frustrating.

Add to that the sudden Random capital letters that appear, and the fact that it’s getting harder to rediscover the letters of the (correct) word typed in (after predictive text has changed it to, say, two words, or capitalised an earlier word in the sentence) and you surely have something that should worry Apple. Is this AI at work? Because it doesn’t augur well for the future if so!

Both dictation and predictive text are definitely getting WORSE not better with each iOS update.

Another thread about the same issue:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8087600?start=0&tstart=0

Also:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/4c60gj/autocorrec t_getting_worse/

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48 replies

Jan 27, 2018 6:30 PM in response to mattcushing26

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

AIMZulu

Level 1

8 points

Mar 15, 2018 1:42 PM in response to Budwhite

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

Apr 9, 2018 2:50 PM in response to mattcushing26

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.

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