Apple and Dragon Dictation Voice Commands
Character/Action | Voice Command | Comments |
New Line | New Line | Adds one new line after the current. |
New Paragraph | New Paragraph | Adds two new lines after the current. |
Space | Space Bar | Adds a space at the current position. Works best when spoken like one word. |
Cap | Cap | Capitalizes the next word. |
Cap All Words | Caps On | Capitalizes each word until you say "caps off". |
No Caps | No Caps | No words are capitalized until you say "No Caps Off". |
All Caps | All Caps On | All words are in all caps until "All Caps Off". |
No Caps | No Caps On | No words are in caps until "All Caps Off". |
No Spaces | No Space On | Prevents any spaces from being created until "No Space OFf". |
Apple and Dragon Dictation Punctuation Voice Commands
Punctuation | Voice Command | Comments |
& | "ampersand" or "and sign" | |
. | period | |
: | Colon | |
? | Question mark | |
! | Exclamation Point | |
, | Comma | |
= | Equal sign | |
@ | At sign | |
/ | forward slash or slash | |
- | hyphen | |
' | "begin single quote" or "open single quote" | To close: "end single quote" or "close single quote" |
" | "begin quote" or "open quote" | To close: "close quote" or "end quote" |
( | "left parenthesis" or "open parenthesis" | |
) | "right parenthesis" or "close parenthesis" | |
% | percent sign | |
$ | dollar sign | |
# | Pound sign | |
° | degree sign | |
* | asteric | Emphacising the "ik" sound singular seems to work best. If I phonetically sound like the correct spelling "asterisk" with an "ix" sound, I tend to get the word "asterix". |