Dictating punctuation and special characters

You can enter punctuation marks and special characters as you dictate.

For most of what you'll dictate, just say “period,” “comma,” and “question mark” in the appropriate places as you dictate.

Use the following table when you need to dictate other punctuation or special characters.

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To enter

Say

To enter

Say

&

 

ampersand
and sign

*

asterisk

’

apostrophe

’s

apostrophe ess

@

at

`

backquote

'

begin single quote
open single quote

'

close single

quote
end single quote

"

open quote
begin quote

"

close quote
end quote

" "

empty quotes

U.S./Canada:

[]

Other than U.S./Canada:

()

empty brackets

"<text>"

quote that

quote selection

[<text>]

bracket that

bracket selection

\

backslash

/

forward slash
slash

:

colon

:

numeric colon

,

comma (optional)

,

numeric comma

^

caret

...…

ellipsis

--

dash

°

degree sign

.

dot
point
period

.

U.S./Canada:
period (optional)


Other than U.S./Canada:
full stop (optional)

$

dollar sign, or dollar, or dollars

©

copyright sign

=

equal sign

€

euro-sign or euro or euros

!

 

U.S./Canada only:
exclamation point
All Dialects:
exclamation mark

-

 

hyphen
numeric hyphen

 

£

U.S./Canada:
pound sterling sign
Other Dialects:
pound sign
pounds

?

question mark

®

registered sign

§

section sign

;

semicolon

(space)

space bar

(tab)

tab key

~

tilde

_

underscore

|

vertical bar

{

 

U.S./Canada:
left brace
open brace
Other than U.S./Canada:
left curly bracket
open curly bracket

}

 

U.S./Canada:
close brace
right brace

Other than U.S./Canada:
right curly bracket
close curly bracket

[

 

U.S./Canada:
left bracket
open bracket
Other than U.S./Canada:
left square bracket
open square bracket

 

]

 

U.S./Canada:
right bracket
close bracket

Other than U.S./Canada:
right square bracket
close square bracket

(

 

All Dialects:
left parenthesis
open parenthesis
Other than U.S./Canada:
left bracket
open bracket

)

 

All Dialects:
right parenthesis
close parenthesis


Other than U.S./Canada:
right bracket
close bracket

<

 

left angle bracket
open angle bracket

 

<

 

less than sign

 

>

 

right angle bracket
close angle bracket

>

greater than sign

«

 

open euro quote

»

 

close euro quote

-

 

minus sign

#

 

U.S./Canada:
pound sign
number sign


Other than U.S./Canada:
hash sign
sharp sign

%

percent sign

+

plus sign

:-(

frowny face

:-)

smiley face

;-)

winky face