Starting to Dictate

control over where punctuation appears, you may want to explicitly dictate all your punctuation.

NOTE: You can turn Natural Punctuation on and off by voice by saying "autopunctuation on" and "autopunctuation off" or by selecting Tools > Auto-Formatting Options from the menu of the DragonBar and clicking Automatically add commas and periods.

For more information on Natural Punctuation see Using

Natural Punctuation on page 111.

Dictating punctuation

You can dictate punctuation at any time while you are using Dragon, even when Natural Punctuation is enabled.

Use the following list as a guide to dictating the most common punctuation marks. (For a complete list of punctuation, see the online help.)

TO E NTER

SAY (US/Can ada)

SAY (Ot her Dial ec ts)

,

comma

comma

 

 

 

.

period

full stop

 

 

 

!

exclamation point or

exclamation mark

 

exclamation mark

 

 

 

 

?

question mark

question mark

 

 

 

-

hyphen

hyphen

 

 

 

:

colon

colon

 

 

 

Starting new lines and paragraph

While you are dictating, you can use the following commands to duplicate the action of pressing the ENTER key once (to add a new line) or twice (to add a new paragraph).

TO

SAY

Add a new line

“New Line”

 

 

Add a new

“New

paragraph

Paragraph”

 

 

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