Tips: Siri dictation
Siri Dictation
By now many are familiar with Apple's voice-to-text service called Siri dictation. Did you know you can do things like dictate :) emotes? Look over this list of dictation commands you just may learn something new.
Say this … |
… to do this |
|---|---|
| new line | move to the next line (like pressing “Return” on a keyboard) |
| new paragraph | to start a new paragraph |
| cap | to capitalize the next wordFor example, saying: I named my pet pig cap baconproduces the text: I named my pet pig Bacon (interestingly, if you say “Kevin Bacon”, Bacon is automatically capitalized for you) |
| caps on … caps off | to capitalize a section of textFor example, saying: caps on twenty five ways to eat bacon caps offproduces the text: 25 Ways to Eat Bacon |
| all caps | to make the next word all uppercaseFor example, saying: I am hungry feed me all caps now pleaseproduces the text: I am hungry feed me NOW please |
| all caps on … all caps off | to make part of what you say uppercaseFor example, saying: I am hungry all caps on feed me now all caps off pleaseproduces the text: I am hungry FEED ME NOW please |
| no caps | to make the next word lowercaseFor example, saying: I like no caps Mikeproduces the text: I like mike |
| no caps on … no caps off | to make sure part of what you say is all lowercaseFor example, saying: Our friends no caps on Steve and Tina no caps off live in Californiaproduces the text: Our friends steve and tina live in California |
| space bar | to prevent a hyphen from appearing in a normally hyphenated wordFor example, saying: This restaurant is first space bar classprevents first-class from being hyphenated, and produces the text: This restaurant is first class |
| no space | to prevent a space between wordsFor example, saying: This is the best no space tasting bacon everproduces the text: This is the besttasting bacon ever |
| no space on … no space off | to prevent a section of text from having spaces between wordsFor example, saying: This is no space on the best tasting bacon no space off everproduces the text: This is thebesttastingbacon ever |
| “period” or “full stop” | to place a “.” at the end of a sentence |
| dot | .For example, saying: The dot number pi is three dot one fourproduces the text: The.number pi is 3.14 (note the subtle difference between saying point and dot… dotworks between words) |
| point | .For example, saying: The point number pi is three point one fourproduces the text: The point number pi 3.14 (note the subtle difference between saying point and dot… dotworks between words) |
| “ellipsis” or “dot dot dot” | … |
| comma | , |
| double comma | ,, |
| “quote” or “quotation mark” | ”(although, if you need to place some text within quotation marks, using the “quote … end quote” commands may be more accurate) |
| “open single quote…close single quote” | to place single quotes around a section of textFor example, saying: Open single quote this is the best ice cream ever close single quote comma said Sallyproduces the text: ‘this is the best ice cream ever’, said Sally |
| apostrophe | ‘(although in many cases, apostrophes are automatically inserted, like when saying Sam’s new iPhone) |
| exclamation point | ! |
| inverted exclamation point | ¡ |
| question mark | ? |
| inverted question mark | ¿ |
| ampersand | & |
| asterisk | * |
| open parenthesis | ( |
| close parenthesis | ) |
| open bracket | [ |
| close bracket | ] |
| open brace | { |
| close brace | } |
| dash | -For example, saying: This dash is dash my dash cheeseproduces the text: This – is – my – cheese (note the difference in spacing between this and when sayinghyphen) |
| hyphen | -For example, saying: This hyphen is hyphen my hyphen cheeseproduces the text: This-is-my-cheese (note the difference in spacing between this and when sayingdash) |
| em dash | — |
| underscore | _ |
| plus sign | + |
| minus sign | - |
| equals sign | = |
| percent sign | % |
| copyright sign | © |
| registered sign | ® |
| section sign | § |
| dollar sign | $ |
| cent sign | ¢ |
| euro sign | € |
| yen sign | ¥ |
| degree sign | ° |
| caret | ^ |
| at sign | @ |
| pound sterling sign | £ |
| pound sign | # |
| greater than sign | > |
| less than sign | < |
| forward slash | / |
| back slash | \ |
| vertical bar | | |
| “smiley” or “smiley face” or “smile face” | :-) |
| “frowny” or “frowny face” or “frown face” | :-( |
| “winky” or “winky face” or “wink face” | ;-) |
| e.g. (pronounced as “e g”) | e.g.For example, saying: e g when you learn to ride a bikeproduces the text: E.g. when you learn to ride a bike |
| i.e. (pronounced as “i e”) | i.e.For example, saying: i e when you learn to ride a bikeproduces the text: I.e. when you learn to ride a bike |
