When doing voice dictation for texts it makes my husband’s name Jerry as JERRY. How do I fix this? I am using iPad Air 4th gen, iOS 16.6 but this has been happening for many updates now! i fixed it on my iPhone 13 Pro by turning off Auto Capitalization in keyboard settings but it is not working on my iPad!
iPhone 13 Pro
I believe I have figured out the issue because I have experienced the same thing. Whenever this happens, I look in my contacts and search for the word or name that was capitalized, even if it's just the first letter of the word, when it shouldn't be.
in other words, if I mention LISA in a dictation for a text and it capitalizes it, sure enough, if I go to my contacts and search for Lísa, one of several possible Lisa's whom I know is fully capitalized. The strange thing is that if I know five Lisa's, and there's only one that's spelled in all caps, it always picks the one in all caps. So much for doing things based on statistics.
I think you'll find that JERRY is spelled in all caps in your contacts, even if it's only one of several spelled in all caps. It's a very frustrating feature, at least in my mind. I have not talked to Apple about how to turn that off, if even possible.
We have a glen behind our building here in New York City, and whenever I refer to the glen in a text, it spells it with a G. Not that big a deal, but it's annoying. Every time I see a name or word spelled in all caps, I go to my contacts and fix it because I never intended to put it in that way. I suppose I wouldn't change my friend's name from Glen to glen just to accommodate a capital letter when I'm referring to the glen behind my building
I believe when I got my first iPhone and transferred my contacts from other software, many of them were capitalized because they were entered that way automatically when I received an email from someone who spelled their email address snd contact info in all caps.
I believe I have figured out the issue because I have experienced the same thing. Whenever this happens, I look in my contacts and search for the word or name that was capitalized, even if it's just the first letter of the word, when it shouldn't be.
in other words, if I mention LISA in a dictation for a text and it capitalizes it, sure enough, if I go to my contacts and search for Lísa, one of several possible Lisa's whom I know is fully capitalized. The strange thing is that if I know five Lisa's, and there's only one that's spelled in all caps, it always picks the one in all caps. So much for doing things based on statistics.
I think you'll find that JERRY is spelled in all caps in your contacts, even if it's only one of several spelled in all caps. It's a very frustrating feature, at least in my mind. I have not talked to Apple about how to turn that off, if even possible.
We have a glen behind our building here in New York City, and whenever I refer to the glen in a text, it spells it with a G. Not that big a deal, but it's annoying. Every time I see a name or word spelled in all caps, I go to my contacts and fix it because I never intended to put it in that way. I suppose I wouldn't change my friend's name from Glen to glen just to accommodate a capital letter when I'm referring to the glen behind my building
I believe when I got my first iPhone and transferred my contacts from other software, many of them were capitalized because they were entered that way automatically when I received an email from someone who spelled their email address snd contact info in all caps.
Oh man. I’ve been trying to figure this out for ages and you nailed it. Great job on it! Thanks!
I was happy to help.
OMG!!! Thank you so much Craig, this has been driving me crazy for so long.
I'm a property manager and every time I text the word tenant it capitalises it and it's been driving me crazy!
I checked my contacts after reading your post and found a contact I had the word TENANT in their profile.
Thank you so much. :)
Text replacement wasn’t the issue.
Resetting keyboard dictionary is too drastic for me, I would lose too much stuff.
I realized I had my husband’s name in Contacts in all caps! I changed it to lowercase, restarted my devices and dictation works now, just the J in uppercase.
thanks much.
I just bought a Mac Mini and I noticed something similar. If I press the control key twice, dictate a number of words and click the DONE button whatever text it created will overwrite entirely all caps. If instead I press control key twice to dismiss the text does not rewrite to all caps and remains as initially produced. Ventura 13.5.2.
Hi there bevzilla,
Predictive text and dictation show words and results based on their usage on your iPhone and iPad. We'd suggest checking for any text replacements in Settings > General > Keyboard. Also, you could try resetting the keyboard dictionary in Settings > General > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary.
Take care.
You are right! Thanks!!!
Voice dictation makes name in all caps?
