How to make Siri transcribe “going to” never “gonna”

This is an accessibility problem as some of us rely on Siri to overcome physical “challenges.”

It’s also a safety issue since many of us use hands-free mode to safely operate machinery, a vehicle, or perform some other task that cannot safely be done with a phone in our hands.

Someone else asked this same question a month ago, this is an extremely common frustration: I never want to see “wanna” or “gonna” in written communications that I generate by dictation.

Does anyone at Apple care? This is really basic accessibility support and UX.

For the record, because the lone reply from a community member incorrectly speculated about text substitution: As an experiment, I added a text shortcut recently to substitute “going to” if I *type/tap* “gonna,” but Siri does *not* perform those substitutions when transcribing.

That’s true whether I tell Siri to reply to a message or whether I select a chat in the Messages app, touch the microphone, and begin dictating. Neither has the desired effect— I get childish slang or dialect instead of adult English.

Not only is this embarrassing and bad bad bad for business communications, which it is; but it’s poor and counterproductive as a role-model and mentor when corresponding with young people or non-native English speakers who need to see proper, written communication in order to learn it themselves.

I would think the fact that I correct “wanna” and “gonna” every single time would be enough to train Siri as to my preferences—but no such luck.

In a related problem, for some reason, Siri has decided that the name Alex is spelled with an i even though I correct it every single time. I do have one person in my phonebook, with whom I never correspond, whose name is spelled that way; but I also have ten other Contacts whose names are spelled conventionally.

Either way, it doesn’t matter how many times I make the correction, Siri always gives me the non-standard, incorrect spelling.

Apple, do you care? Prove it.