Dictation commands
The following commands are interpreted and transformed into characters by the dictate endpoints:
Action | Character | Keywords/Commands |
---|---|---|
Add a new line | \n | next line line break new line |
Add a new paragraph | \n\n | next paragraph new paragraph paragraph |
Add a period | . | dot period full stop |
Add a comma | , | comma |
Add a question mark | ? | question mark |
Add an exclamation mark | ! | exclamation mark exclamation point |
Add an ellipsis | ... | ellipsis |
Add a semicolon | ; | semi-colon |
Add a colon | : | colon |
Add quotes | " | quote double quotation mark double quote open quote close quote open double quote close double quote |
Add single quotes | ' | single quote open single quote close single quote single quotation mark |
Add open parentheses | ( | left paren left parentheses open paren open parentheses open parenthesis |
Add close parentheses | ) | close paren close parentheses close parenthesis right paren right parentheses right parenthesis |
Add open bracket | [ | left bracket open bracket |
Add close bracket | ] | right bracket close bracket |
Add a dash | - | dash hyphen minus |