Punctuation Voice Commands

These are the punctuation commands that are available when dictating a report.

 

Mark or Sign

Voice Command

Mark or Sign

Voice Command

&   

"Ampersand" or "And Sign"

*   

"Asterisk"

"Apostrophe"

’s

"Apostrophe S"

@

"At Sign"

‘         

"Back quote"

"Begin Single Quote" or
"Open Single Quote"

"Close Single Quote" or
"End Single Quote"

"Open Quote" or "Begin Quote"

"Close Quote" or "End Quote"

\

"Backslash"

/

"Forward Slash" or "Slash"

:

"Colon"

,

"Comma"

^

"Caret"

"Ellipsis"

--

"Dash"

°   

"Degree Sign"

.

"Period" or "Dot" or "Point" or "Full Stop"

$

"Dollar Sign" or
"Dollar" or
"Dollars"

©

"Copyright Sign"

=   

"Equal Sign"

-   

"Hyphen"

!

"Exclamation Point"

?

"Question Mark"

®

"Registered Sign"

 |

"Vertical Bar"

;   

Semicolon

<space>   

"Space Bar"

<tab>

"Tab key"

      ~

"Tilde"

_   

"Underscore"

 +     

"Plus Sign"

-   

"Minus Sign"

#   

"Pound Sign"

%

"Percent sign"

}

"Right Brace" or
"Right Curly Bracket" or
"Close Brace" or
"Close Curly Bracket"

{  

"Left Brace" or
"Left Curly Bracket" or
"Open Brace" or
"Open Curly Bracket"

]

"Right Bracket" or
"Right Square Bracket" or "Close Bracket" or
"Close Square Bracket"

"Left Bracket" or
"Left Square Bracket" or "Open Bracket" or
"Open Square Bracket"

)

"Right Paren" or
"Right Parenthesis" or
"Close Paren" or
"Close Parenthesis"

(

"Left Paren" or
"Left Parenthesis" or
"Open Paren" or
"Open Parenthesis"

>   

"Right Angle Bracket" or
"Close Angle Bracket" or "Greater Than Sign"

<

"Left Angle Bracket" or
"Open Angle Bracket" or
"Less Than Sign"