Punctuation & Special Character Commands for Dictation in Mac OS X & iOS There are a lot of other punctuation and special commands available, and even though most are common sense, you can find the full list below for convenience. What time do you want to see a movie? I think the 5 showing is the BEST. What time do you want to see a movie I think the showing is the best Here’s an example of how to use Dictation to write a quick message that looks as if it was typed normally: “Tab Key” pushes the cursor forward like hitting the tab keyĪdding things like periods and commas can be done automatically by pausing in speech, or, usually more accurately, by just simply saying aloud the punctuation needed.“ No Space Off” to resume normal spacing between words.“No Space On” to turn off all spaces in the next sequence of words (helpful for passwords).“No Space” to prevent a space from being between the next word.“New Line” to insert and start a new line.“New Paragraph” to create a new paragraph.“Numeral ” to type the number rather than word.“No Caps” to use no capitals with the word.“Caps Off” to return to default letter casing.“Caps On” to format next words in title case.“Upper Case ” for making a spelling out acronyms (e.g.“Caps” to capitalize the next word (e.g.“All Caps” to capitalize all of only the next word (e.g.These are to be spoken when Dictation is active: List of Dictation Commands for iOS & Mac OS X These commands will work in both OS X and iOS, so long as the Mac, iPad, or iPhone supports Dictation and has the featured turned on (here’s how to enable it in OS X and how to enable it for iOS, though it’s almost always turned on by default in the latest versions of both.)

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