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Dictating punctuation and symbols

To dictate punctuation or symbols, say the name of the punctuation or symbol at the appropriate places in your dictation.

In Dictation mode, Dragon will insert intelligent spacing around punctuation. In Spelling and Numbers modes, all spaces must be inserted by saying Space bar.

To place punctuation around text

  • Say Put <punctuation> around selection to place punctuation at the beginning and end of the selected text.
  • Say Put <punctuation> around that to place punctuation at the beginning and end of the last phrase you dictated.
  • Say Put <punctuation> around <text> to place punctuation at the beginning and end of the specified text.

    • You can use these commands with:

    • Quotation marks
    • Parentheses
    • Brackets
    • Braces
    • Spanish exclamation marks
    • Spanish question marks

Punctuation and symbols

To enter

Say

To enter

Say

.

U.S. dialects:

  • Period
  • Dot

Non-U.S. dialects:

  • Full stop

All dialects:

  • Point

?
  • Question mark

!
  • Exclamation mark

,
  • Comma

:
  • Colon

;
  • Semicolon

-
  • Hyphen
  • Minus sign

–
  • Dash
  • En-dash

—
  • Em-dash

’
  • Apostrophe

's
  • Apostrophe ess

`
  • Backquote

'
  • Begin single quote
  • Open single quote

'
  • Close single quote
  • End single quote

"
  • Open quote
  • Begin quote

"
  • Close quote
  • End quote

(
  • Left parenthesis
  • Open parenthesis

)
  • Right parenthesis
  • Close parenthesis

[

U.S. and Canada:

  • Left bracket
  • Open bracket

All dialects:

  • Left square bracket
  • Open square bracket

]

U.S. and Canada:

  • Right bracket
  • Close bracket

All dialects:

  • Right square bracket
  • Close square bracket

{
  • Left brace
  • Open brace
  • Left curly bracket
  • Open curly bracket

}
  • Close brace
  • Right brace
  • Right curly bracket
  • Close curly bracket

<
  • Left angle bracket
  • Open angle bracket

>
  • Right angle bracket
  • Close angle bracket

\
  • Backslash

/
  • Forward slash
  • Slash

&
  • ampersand
  • and sign

*
  • Asterisk

@
  • At sign

When dictating an email address:

  • At

_
  • Underscore

©
  • Copyright sign

®
  • Registered sign

^
  • Caret

…
  • Ellipsis

+
  • Plus sign

=
  • Equal sign

×
  • Multiplication sign

÷
  • Division sign

±
  • Plus or minus sign

%
  • Percent sign

<
  • Less than sign

>
  • Greater than sign

#

U.S. and Canada:

  • Pound sign
  • Number sign

Other dialects:

  • Hash sign
  • Sharp sign

°
  • Degree sign

$
  • Dollar sign

€
  • Euro sign

£

U.S. and Canada:

  • Pound sterling sign

Other dialects:

  • Pound sign

¥
  • Yen sign

|
  • Vertical bar

~
  • Tilde

  • Paragraph sign

§
  • Section sign

:-(
  • Frowny face

:-)
  • Smiley face

;-)
  • Winky face
  

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