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Voice-to-Text speech being altered

What is the reason voice to text consistently changes singular pronouns to multiple pronouns? For example will say "you ", "she", "he", etc. and words will be changed to "they" or "them" or even "me" or "I". This inhibits the ability to speak one's own intended words to others. Also, "want to" or "going to" spells out ["Moana" or "Ghana"?] as you can see in the last sentence was attempting to say ["Juana" and "Ghana"]. These two sentences are a perfect example of what the user is experiencing with speech-to-text altering and offering "wanna" and "gonna" instead of real words. What is the reason the iPhone of today (which is updated and tuned to offered preferences) perform less competently than the iPhone of a mere 10 years ago? It provides nonsense words as spellcheck suggestions, does not understand common clearly enunciated speech, changes words to unintended meanings, etc.? No AI is turned on and predictive text and punctuation are turned off. Spending time going back to change incorrect interpretations or purposeful alterations of what is said is time-consuming.


Here is an example in this query...


[Thank you for anyone who has some inside. They are willing to share with me about this issue.] The last sentence was first attempt at voice to text [thank you to anyone who has some insight? They are willing to share...] last sentence was also voice to text...it's simply not working.


It has been faulty and mis-programmed for several years without correction after hundreds of reported issues with the same functions.

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Update to iOS 27 as Siri has been enhanced for more accurate speech recognition. It is called Advanced Dictation Preview and is available on your iPhone 17 Pro Max. Failing to update will not allow you to take advantage of the improvements in Siri based on the Feedback of users who had a poor experience previously.