{"id":1278,"date":"2026-05-19T11:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:37:52","slug":"can-i-dictate-punctuation-and-formatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/can-i-dictate-punctuation-and-formatting\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I dictate punctuation and formatting?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This article explains how to dictate punctuation, capitalization, and formatting in Speech Anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applies to<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All Users<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dictating punctuation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Speech Anywhere supports full voice controlled punctuation. Simply say the name of the punctuation mark as part of your dictation. For example, say “The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday comma 15th April full stop” and the widget will insert: “The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 15th April.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Common punctuation commands include: “full stop” or “period”, “comma”, “question mark”, “exclamation mark”, “colon”, “semicolon”, “open bracket”, “close bracket”, “open quotes”, “close quotes”, “hyphen”, and “dash”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Formatting commands<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Say “new line” to move to the next line. Say “new paragraph” to insert a paragraph break. Say “tab” to insert a tab. Say “cap” followed by a word to capitalise the first letter of that word. Say “caps on” to begin capitalising subsequent words, and “caps off” to return to normal. Say “all caps” before a word to make it fully uppercase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tips<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Always dictate punctuation as you speak rather than leaving it to add manually afterwards. This significantly reduces post-editing time and improves the overall quality of transcribed documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overview This article explains how to dictate punctuation, capitalization, and formatting in Speech Anywhere. Applies to All Users Dictating punctuation Speech Anywhere supports full voice controlled punctuation. Simply say the name of the punctuation mark as part of your dictation. For example, say “The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday comma 15th April full stop” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.dictalogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}