Dragon Diction Voice Commands

Author: MikeW    Date: 2016-08-21 12:18   

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".