Fact · Dictation on phones and tablets
TidBITS says Apple does not provide a user-editable list where you can add special words for Dictation, and describes Contacts as a back-door way to train it.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Apple doesn’t provide a user-editable list where you can add special words”
TipBITS: How Fake Contacts Can Fix Dictation's Proper Noun Problems, Adam Engst, TidBITS, 2026, Section: Contact conflicts (the paragraph before the Contacts workaround).
Open the original- What it measures
- Adam Engst, writing for TidBITS in May 2026, describes the author's own use of Apple's Dictation on the iPhone and the proper nouns it gets wrong.
- What it does not show
- A statement about one author's understanding of the feature as of May 2026. Apple may add a vocabulary list later. Check Apple's current Dictation pages before relying on it.