One option is to not use dictation at all, and if you know braille, to get a hable one bluetooth keyboard. Another bluetooth qwerty keyboard would work as well.
On 8/28/23, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > I have found that most of the time, Siri dictation is really pretty > accurate, more on the phone than on the watch. I’m using an older phone, a > 10 r. My problem with Siri isn’t trying to get it to do simple things like > open apps etc. It simply doesn’t hear what I say and comes back with really > strange stuff a lot of the time. The only thing it never screws up is Open > the app store. I wonder why that might be. Smile. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 28, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Siri dictation has always been doing this although it does seem to be >> somewhat more accurate in iOS 17. >> >> One thing Siri never seems to get right is the difference between "Flour" >> and "flower", I can dicate "Pleas also bring me 2 Kg of spelt flour" and >> it will always put "Please bring me 2 Kg of spelt flower". >> >> English of course is also a ridiculously difficult language when it comes >> to stuff like that, I find dictation in German is almost always 100% >> accurate because there aren't so many words which sound the same but are >> totally different. As for the above example, "flower" in German is "Blume" >> and "flour" is "Mehl", no chance to get that wrong. >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >> Richard Turner >> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2023 11:36 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: siri sucks. >> >> >> >> When i use dictation, sometimes the wrong word is entered, but certainly >> not the majority of the time. >> >> I try to 1: be in a quiet environment, 2: speak a little more slowly than >> I would ordinarily speak, 3: speak clearly, 4: Go over several times what >> I want to say in my head before dictating. >> >> HTH, >> >> >> >> Richard, USA >> >> —— >> >> "While striving for perfection, let us do what is possible." — John Wesley >> >> (Sent from my iPhone) >> >> >> >>> On Aug 28, 2023, at 11:27 AM, Jenny Bomareto >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> >>> >>> Whenever I'm dictating a text-message, e-mail, or whenever you use siri >>> for dictation. it puts whatever words it thinks should be in their. I >>> also don't have autocorrect turned on either. This is getting very >>> irritating. >>> >>> >>> >>> TIA in advance for your help. >>> >>> Thanks for reading regarding this matter. >>> Jenny Bomareto >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> -- >>> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone >>> list. >>> >>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >>> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >>> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>> >>> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: >>> [email protected]. 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