posted Feb 8, 2014, 10:38 AM by Info@ HelpAsNeeded
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updated Feb 9, 2014, 12:14 PM
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Despite the tremendous progress that has been made in speech recognition systems, creation of documents using speech rather than using fingers on a keyboard is more the exception than the rule. Free voice recognition capabilities are available on Apple iPhones, Apple Mac computers, windows computers running Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 PC, and on Google's voice search applet. In order to make dictation more useful, Apple has developed and published a list of dictation commands, such as "caps on," and "new paragraph." Apple provides a helpful online guide, titled "Mac basics: dictation lets you speak text instead of typing." While dictation operates much the same on an iPhone as on a Mac, we found it cumbersome to view a list of the detailed dictation commands on our iPhone. Accordingly, we have posted the list of Mac dictation commands in a "sortable" spreadsheet at the link below (note: we did not test to verify that every one of these commands works). Those dictation commands also appear below the spreadsheet link.
Click Here for sortable spreadsheet
Punctuation | Result | apostrophe | ‘ | open bracket | [ | close bracket | ] | open parenthesis | ( | close parenthesis | ) | open brace | { | close brace | } | open angle bracket | < | close angle bracket | > | colon | : | comma | , | dash | - | ellipsis | … | exclamation mark | ! | hyphen | – | period / point / dot / full stop | . | question mark | ? | quote | " | end quote | " | begin single quote | ' | end single quote | ' | semicolon | ; |
Typography | Result | ampersand | & | asterisk | * | at sign | @ | backslash | \ | forward slash | / | caret | ^ | center dot | · | large center dot | • | degree sign | ° | hashtag / pound sign | # | percent sign | % | underscore | _ | vertical bar | | |
Capitalization | Result | caps on | formats next phrase in Title Case | caps off | resumes default letter case | all caps | formats next word in ALL CAPS | all caps on | proceeds in ALL CAPS | all caps off | resumes default letter case |
Currency | Result | dollar sign | $ | cent sign | ¢ | pound sterling sign | £ | euro sign | € | yen sign | ¥ |
Emoticons | Result | cross-eyed laughing face | XD | frowny face | :-( | smiley face | :-) | winky face | ;-) |
Intellectual Property | Result | copyright sign | © | registered sign | ® | trademark sign | ™ |
Mathematical | Result | equals sign | = | greater than sign | > | less than sign | < | minus sign | - | multiplication sign | x | plus sign | + |
Word and Line | Result | new line | adds line break | numeral | formats next phrase as number | roman numeral | formats next phrase as Roman numeral | new paragraph | adds paragraph break | no space on | formats next phrase without spaces | no space off | resumes default spacing | tab key | advances cursor to the next tab stop |
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