


Holding your phone or watch close to your mouth is one obvious step, but if the noise is mainly coming from one direction (like traffic on the street), then turning away from the noise source can make a big difference. The secret here, I think, is isolating your voice as much as possible. If you work in a factory, on a construction site, and so on, then environmental noise may be too challenging.īut I do still use Siri when on the street and in other noisier environments, and it does still work well for me. We can’t control the environment we’re in, and I fully recognize one of the advantages I have is that I work from home, so am not generally competing with loud background noise. If you’ve just updated to iOS 16, now is a particularly good time to give dictation another go, as you can now easily mix-and-match speaking and typing … Isolate your voice from background sounds Siri is also the main way I control my HomeKit devices.Īny time I’ve mentioned either of these things, there are always comments from people saying how terrible their experience is with both, so I thought I’d share a few things I think make a difference. Dictating on the iPhone is, I would confidently estimate, something I do more than typing.
