IOS 8 voice dialing, "Just to confirm..."

What a huge step backward in the usability of my iPhone.  Instead of telling Siri, "call Mom mobile" and getting the response "calling Mom mobile" followed by the call going through, Siri now responds with, "Just to confirm, would you like to call Mom?".  It may not sound like much but that extra step plus the required response from me makes it slower to use voice dialing than to remove the phone from my pocket and dial the number.  Oh please let there be a way to switch this 'feature' off.

I ran into the same problem after upgrading to iOS 8 and it's REALLY annoying.
However, today I stumbled upon something that seems to have fixed the problem on the contacts that I've tried it on so far.
Here's what I did:
1) I changed the last digit of the contact's phone number (by adding 1) and then I saved the contact record
2) I changed the last digit of the contact's phone number back to what it needs to be (by subtracting 1) and then I saved the contact record again
After I did this, I used Siri to call the contact and she called without the "Just to confirm..." prompt.  I had one or two contacts that this didn't work on right away so I had to repeat the process, but it eventually worked the second time around.
Again, I just stumbled upon this today so I'm not positive it's a permanent fix but it looks promising so far.

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