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Dictation automatically replaces spoken words with unwanted text formats

Obviously dictation has more and more issues as the years by, but there must be some way to disable this text replacement that it uses.


For example if I say I'm going on a 6 hour drive, automatically replaces it with "6 Hour Dr." why does it think it's an address?


How do I stop this? Dictation used to be very helpful for hands-free messaging. Thank you in advance!

2 replies

One way might be to say “I’m going to drive for six hours.”

I guess I'll have to consciously change the way I naturally speak then.