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Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters

TO E NTER	SAY
Tokyo-based company	Tokyo based company
nine-year-old boy	nine year old boy

Including hyphens as you dictate

To hyphenate words that Dragon doesn’t hyphenate automatically, just say “hyphen” wherever you want a hyphen.

TO E NTER	SAY
speech-recognition	speech [hyphen] recognition software
software
power-sharing	power [hyphen] sharing agreement
agreement
Elizabeth Walker-Smith	Elizabeth Walker [hyphen] Smith

You can hyphenate words you just dictated with the command “Hyphenate That.” Select the words you want to hyphenate and say “Hyphenate That.” If you say this command when no words are selected, Dragon will usually hyphenate the last few words that you said.

Removing hyphens

You can remove a hyphen by selecting it and replacing it with a space.

To remove a hyphen:

1Say “Select hyphen.”

2Say “Space Bar.”

Preventing hyphens

You can prevent Dragon from entering a hyphen by pausing where the hyphen would normally be.

For example, to type “long lasting” (normally hyphenated) say “long,” then pause for a moment, and then say “lasting.” Or

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