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Spoken punctuation

Speech Recognition Cloud automatically adds punctuation as you dictate. For more control, you can also speak punctuation commands explicitly.

In most cases you do not need to say punctuation at all. The AI handles commas, full stops, question marks, and capitalisation automatically from context. Use these commands when you want to override or insert specific punctuation.

Common punctuation

You say	Result
"period" or "full stop"	.
"comma"	,
"question mark"	?
"exclamation mark"	!
"colon"	:
"semicolon"	;
"apostrophe"	'
"hyphen" or "dash"	-
"em dash"	--

Tip: "full stop" works more reliably than "period" since "period" is a common word in everyday speech.

Quotes and brackets

You say	Result
"open quote"	"
"close quote"	"
"open parenthesis" or "open bracket"	(
"close parenthesis" or "close bracket"	)
"open square bracket"	[
"close square bracket"	]

Special characters

You say	Result
"at sign"	@
"ampersand"	&
"asterisk"	*
"underscore"	_
"slash" or "forward slash"	/
"backslash"	\
"ellipsis"	...
"dollar sign"	$
"hash" or "hashtag"	#
"plus sign"	+
"equals sign"	=

Formatting commands

You say	Result
"new line"	Line break
"new paragraph"	Double line break

Bullet points

Create bullet point lists by saying these commands. Each starts a new line with the appropriate marker.

You say	Result
"bullet point" or "bullet"	New line with bullet marker
"dash point"	New line with dash
"number point"	New line with auto-incrementing number

Example

You say: "Here are three items. Bullet point. First item. Bullet point. Second item. Bullet point. Third item."

Here are three items. - First item - Second item - Third item

Spelling mode

Need to spell out a name, email address, or uncommon word? Say "spell" followed by individual letters. The sequence ends when you continue with normal speech.

Examples

You say: "My name is spell capital S-A-R-A-H and I live in Brisbane."

Result: My name is Sarah and I live in Brisbane.

You say: "Send it to spell J-O-H-N at G-M-A-I-L dot C-O-M please."

Result: Send it to [email protected] please.

Within a spelling sequence, you can say "space", "dot", "dash", "at", "underscore", "slash", and "hash" to insert those characters.