To ask if you can train sodding autocorrect?

[Yellownotblue]

If this is what AI is like, the human race is safe for quite a while.

Let’s say my first name is Caroline (it’s not). I sign off loads of emails with my first name. But my autocorrect systematically wants to change it to words I never ever use, and in some cases words that don’t even exist. I’m usually given choices including (equivalents of, but starting like the same letters as my actual first name):

Cartilage
Carolingian
Carboxylating

And the most infuriating:
Caroli. Without the final two letters

How dim is autocorrect, and will it ever learn my name? Been using current devices for years.

Yep same! Tonight I mentioned a posters gp on a thread- autocorrect changed gp to government..

I can click and hold the suggestion then bin it- stops it ever suggesting that word again and forces some more sensible options. Is there a function like this on yours?

Can you set up a shortcut in your keyboard? It's under text replacement in an iPhone but I don't know about other makes and devices.

I can type LY for example and it changes it automatically to "love you". I also changed it so fucking would always stay as fucking and wouldn't correct to ducking.

Autocorrect made a rather prescient change to my name at the end of an email recently when I apparently signed off with 'kind regards, Tubs'.

I feel your pain. I get it when it’s obscure words - but it drives me mad when it’s something very simple that clearly doesn’t need correction. One I keep getting at the moment is ‘may’ being capitalised - as in when I’m trying to type ‘I may pop in later’ or similar, my phone decides I actually mean May as in the month after April, or Theresa May.

Oh excellent suggestions, I knew I could count on your wisdom., I will give these a try and report.

At least my autocorrect knows better than to correct fucking to ducking 😁 Silver linings!

YANBU
My autocorrect constantly changes “for” to “foe” and “and” to “abs”. Soooo annoying. In the end I went into the settings and changed it so it effectively doesn’t think foe or abs are words!

A friend's signature was always changed from mum to nun when she texted either of her sons. Which is more likely at the end of a text after 'love'? Where did they get the data that drove that algorithm? Are anonymous nuns prolific secret texters?

@Scarby9

A friend's signature was always changed from mum to nun when she texted either of her sons. Which is more likely at the end of a text after 'love'? Where did they get the data that drove that algorithm? Are anonymous nuns prolific secret texters?

You may be on to something. Negotiate a large payout in exchange for your silence.

The ‘Caroli’ really made me laugh. I hate predictive text input, it doesn’t work very well on iPhones I find.

I think the iPhone one does "learn" too as it does get better the longer I use a phone, but it seems to take over a year for it to not change fucking to ducking, yet you type COCKJUGGLER in capitals once and it suggests it forever when you write something starting with cock (no of course I didn't once text a friend talking about drinking a COCKJUGGLER instead of a cocktail. )

@PenguinsOnParade

I think the iPhone one does "learn" too as it does get better the longer I use a phone, but it seems to take over a year for it to not change fucking to ducking, yet you type COCKJUGGLER in capitals once and it suggests it forever when you write something starting with cock (no of course I didn't once text a friend talking about drinking a COCKJUGGLER instead of a cocktail. )

To quote Seinfeld, What people do in the privacy of their bedroom is nobody’s business but their own!

@switswooo

The ‘Caroli’ really made me laugh. I hate predictive text input, it doesn’t work very well on iPhones I find.

I know, how lazy is that? Just finish the bloody word! I’m not paying you by the letter.

The one on our work software is dire. It's a good job I proof read my letters before they go out (medical secretary). Last week I typed the word hypophonic several times which autocorrected to homophobic, as in 'This patient was severely homophobic'! That would have been and interesting phone call later!

@FourPlatinumRings

I can click and hold the suggestion then bin it- stops it ever suggesting that word again and forces some more sensible options. Is there a function like this on yours?

OMG I love you! I know a lot of the iPhone tricks but had never come across this before. Was thinking about deleting all the learnt words and starting again but I have a large collection of foreign words it knows and really didn't want to Iose them. Your have saved my sanity!

Turn off autocowrecked is a first day task when I get a new phone. I'll make my own typos thank you very much.

My phone corrected "suggestion" to "siggsmestion" the other day!

My autocorrect can’t eveb deal with abs as a word.

I’m actually leaving the above sentence as it attests to my frustration. Fucking abs and abs and abs and abs abs and abs abs abs abs abs abs and abs abs abs abs abs abs abs age abs abs abs - that’s how often it gets fucking AND wrong. Worthless piece of shit.

My autocorrect has become totally dysfunctional. It changes normal words to ridiculous combination of random letters.
As an example, it changed ‘I hope you’ to ‘hooo pop uou’. Who would ever write hooo and uou?

I think they do get used to your words in the end. When I first got mine, it corrected both "fuck" and "dick" to "duck." It now says "fuck" even on the rare occasions when I did mean "duck," and it predicts the name of an obscure foreign shop I sometimes talk about to a friend who lives in that country, and the nickname I call my brother on talkboards. Neither of those is a real English word.

@ILiveInSalemsLot

My autocorrect has become totally dysfunctional. It changes normal words to ridiculous combination of random letters. As an example, it changed ‘I hope you’ to ‘hooo pop uou’. Who would ever write hooo and uou?

That made me laugh! Misery loves company.

I've had my new phone for a week and it's already got my work sign off perfect, kind regards, Rhubarbcrumblerules, company name. I only need to type kind and it predicts the rest