
If you have an iPhone or iPad, note that these are identical to the voice commands used on Apple’s iOS. Here’s a full list of voice dictation commands you can use, adapted from Apple’s help site. RELATED: Use Voice Dictation to Save Time on Android, iPhone, and iPad How are you doing?”, you’d have to say “I’m doing well period how are you doing question mark.”

You’ll need to speak the punctuation marks you want to type.

Like on other operating systems, Voice Dictation won’t automatically fill in the appropriate punctuation marks as you speak a sentence normally.

Icon or use the shortcut Alt + ` (grave accent sign, Inserts a comment with the words spoken immediately after theĭisplay help pane open at Dictation items Inserts a comment at the cursor, ready for typing Remains as text, not converted to full emoji NOT a real ellipsis, just three dots in a row (similar but not the same). 'parentheses' is rarely used in favour of the term 'brackets' You'll have to adjust your vocabulary to fit Microsoft's definitions. Saying "Peter apostrophe s"įor some English speakers, the brackets/parentheses commands Voice commands by type: formatting, editing, list, comment or dictation.Īdds 's after the last word.Find commands by name, Undo, Delete, List etc.Use the Search box at right to find symbols by name.

Turn talk into text in Word 365 for Windowsĭiscover all about Dictation and Read Aloud features in Microsoft Office across all platforms (Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android). The list includes punctuation, general symbols, maths symbols, currency signs and text emoji plus all the voice commands. Say “New Paragraph” or “New Line” and Word will create a new paragraph. Say ‘Indent’ to indent the paragraph or ‘Decrease Indent’ to reduce indentation. Say ‘Align Center’ and the current paragraph is centered. Saying any of these phrases converts the words spoken into the symbol or does a Word command.įor example, say “Full Stop” and. Here’s the full and searchable list of Word 365 Dictation special phrases, in English.
