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

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