Voice Recognition Not Working

[DPOIFVet]

I am trying to use the Voice Recognition on my iPhone 4S for texting. After I speak, the 3 purple bubbles show up as if they're processing what I just said and then they go away and nothing is written in the text field.

Siri still recognizes my voice just fine and I have already tried to update my iPhone, restart my iPhone, and restore my iPhone and nothing is working.

I greatly appreciate any and all assistance in this matter.

 

[gentlefury]

I am trying to use the Voice Recognition on my iPhone 4S for texting. After I speak, the 3 purple bubbles show up as if they're processing what I just said and then they go away and nothing is written in the text field.

Siri still recognizes my voice just fine and I have already tried to update my iPhone, restart my iPhone, and restore my iPhone and nothing is working.

I greatly appreciate any and all assistance in this matter.

I have this happen a lot when I either have a weak signal, if apples servers are being crappy or if I am in an extremely loud environment (like walking along a busy road and an 18-wheeler just drove past as I was saying something).

There has been entire days that it did that....so that was on apples side.

 

[dotme]

I am trying to use the Voice Recognition on my iPhone 4S for texting. After I speak, the 3 purple bubbles show up as if they're processing what I just said and then they go away and nothing is written in the text field.

Siri still recognizes my voice just fine and I have already tried to update my iPhone, restart my iPhone, and restore my iPhone and nothing is working.

I greatly appreciate any and all assistance in this matter.

You're not alone. That service died about 90 minutes ago for me, and a few others as well. There's a thread in the main iPhone forum about it. Siri works fine, dictation doesn't. The general consensus is that it's server-side, and the best thing to do for now is wait it out.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1289187/

 

[drjosephs182]

Me too

Siri works fine, voice dictation using the microphone icon does not. (My 4s is on ATT).

 

[jjllmont]

voice recognition not working

I am having the same problem-siri is fine-voice dictation gets the purple bubbles, then nothing-

 

[jdwrx01]

In the same boat as you guys, voice texting not working, siri works but takes longer than normal, all started today, i have verizon, stupid purple bubbles....

 

[pdqgp]

Here too. Ironically we're both in Columbus, Ohio. Could be our area or a link to their servers?

 

[jjllmont]

voice recognition not working

philadelphia here-

 

[DPOIFVet]

Well as long as its server-side/connection issues, I don't mind as much anymore. I was just worried that it was my iPhone.

 

[smiffer55]

Well as long as its server-side/connection issues, I don't mind as much anymore. I was just worried that it was my iPhone.

While I'm not worried it is annoying. Mine seems to work only about 30% of the time the past two weeks.

 

[dhlizard]

I am trying to use the Voice Recognition on my iPhone 4S for texting. After I speak, the 3 purple bubbles show up as if they're processing what I just said and then they go away and nothing is written in the text field.

Siri still recognizes my voice just fine and I have already tried to update my iPhone, restart my iPhone, and restore my iPhone and nothing is working.

I greatly appreciate any and all assistance in this matter.

Here too. Ironically we're both in Columbus, Ohio. Could be our area or a link to their servers?

Small world

 

[cbrolaw]

Voice Recognition

I tried turning Siri off then back on and the voice recognition started working again. Not sure if coincidence but worth a try.

 

[ryandavis11202]

This worked for me too...

I tried turning Siri off then back on and the voice recognition started working again. Not sure if coincidence but worth a try.

I turned Siri off and then back on, and that fixed my speech to text problem. Thanks cbrolaw!

 

[Henri7]

Here in UK, VR not working

New phone, worked fine for a few days, now nothing. The symbols come up, and then it ‘thinks’ but then leaves a blank. Does this with texts, messages and tweets. Any ideas gratefully received

 

[6' cindy]

here too

I live in Rochester NY. Siri works, dictation doesn't

PS Just read the posts above, disabled then re-enabled Suri. Voice-to-text working again.