Random capitalization when dictating

I know what you mean, it’s infuriating. And often when you say “full stop“ (same as “period“ – I’m British!) It immediately inserts two paragraph breaks, what’s that about?! (I left in the capital ‘I’ above as it is a perfect example of the problem!). It’s just astonishing that Apple, with all its resources, isn’t doing anything about this.

And there’s another double paragraph break ….!

Me too, and it's not just the iOS version. I have similar problems on OS X Ventura. It's absolutely maddening I quite agree that every time they update something they make dictation worse. I've got nearly every option in settings for dictation set to off in the hope that something might affect it. Nope.

I've also noticed that dictation badly affects cursor options. Example: in the Gmail app on iOS 90% of the time when I have dictation on I cannot move the cursor to the beginning of a word to remove the uppercase letter that the **** thing has put in where it wasn't wanted or needed. I have to tap on the microphone button and switch dictation off to be able to have free range with the cursor.

Dictation used to be a real timesaver but now it's taking me longer as I have to go through my text and correct all the errors that dictation introduced. Not good, Apple.

I can never make up my mind if it's incompetence or deliberate. Quite often the developers are too smart for their own good and think to "help" us by adding function ability. I'm thinking of things like assuming a pause means that you are starting a new sentence. No. I'm just breathing.

If you look around in this community further, you will see that this problem has been frustrating users for years with no response or fix from Apple. What more is there to say?

As well as the random capitals, dictation seems to have an annoying habit of inserting two extra characters spaces when you click it off. Do you find that as well?