Dictation Tips and Tricks

[twerppoet]

As I've become comfortable with it (and I'm not in public) I've been using dictation quite a bit more. That goes double for the iPhone.

It's not perfect, but it is generally quicker to dictate, then correct, than type the whole thing.

 

[twerppoet]

Three more handy symbols.

© = Copyright sign
™ = Trademark sign
® = Registered sign


Edit: now added to the first post.

 

[twerppoet]

Dragon Dictation Commands that Work in iOS 6 Dictation

• Lowercase = when dictating letter by letter, controls the case. Works erratically.
• Uppercase = when dictating letter by letter, controls the case Works erratically.
• Caps On = Capitalizes the first letter of all major words: The First Letter of All Major Words (Like for book titles.)
• Caps Off = turns it off
• Cap = Capitalizes the next word: Word
• All Caps = Next world is all caps: WORD
• All Caps On = all letters are capitalized: ALL LETTERS ARE CAPITALIZED
• All Caps Off
• No Caps
• No Caps On
• No Caps Off
• No Space On = prevents all spaces: preventsallspaces
• No Space Off = turns it off
• No Space = used to prevent a space between words. Gasstation versus gas station
• Tab Key = inserts a tab

Edited to include the ON commands and stuff.

And edited yet again to include all the other commands I could get to work from the Nuance, Dragon Diction site.

Edit: Added to first post.

 

[twerppoet]

Ok, now that I've got that out of my system, maybe I can go to sleep.

 

[twerppoet]

Letting people who subscribed to the thread know that there has been a minor update to the first post. I added the New Paragraph and New Line commands mentioned in later in the thread.

 

[leelai]

Brilliant thread Twerppoet!

Subscribed!

 

[twerppoet]

Thanks. It was kind of fun putting it together.

 

[leelai]

Yes I can imagine....saying all those words and waiting for the results!

 

[twerppoet]

Some of it was even done using dictation. A bit of a self challenge.

 

[twerppoet]

Updated list of commands with the Numeral command. This forces the next spoken number to be a number character (5 vs five).

I discovered this reading an AppAdvice article by Dom Espocito. It's worth watching the video if you want an introduction on how to use the commands.

 

[squib]

WOW, THANKS!!! What a great post TP. I didn't even think about one single one of those things when I thought of translation! What a shock and what a great find that someone, you ( I make a bow to you ) has it all sorted out for me, figured out all the things that I will need before I even knew I would need them!

 

[twerppoet]

Well, I didn't really discover them, just played around, then put a few different sources together; but you're welcome.

I should probably see if iOS 7 added anything new, but I'll wait a few weeks to see if blogoshpere will do the work for me.

 

[squib]

Well, I didn't really discover them, just played around, then put a few different sources together; but you're welcome.

I should probably see if iOS 7 added anything new, but I'll wait a few weeks to see if blogoshpere will do the work for me.

Have you downloaded the new IOS already?

 

[twerppoet]

Have you downloaded the new IOS already?

Yes, and installed on both devices: iPad 3 and iPhone 5.

I'm already having problems remembering where things were in iOS 6. Well, actually I've always had problems remembering where everything was, but before the upgrade I could check to see if I was wrong or right.

 

[Islandantoinette]

Aloha thank you very much for this post. it is greatly appreciated thank you for sending you to me. I have it under my bookmarks and I'm trying to figure out how to copy and paste it into Word document and put it on my desktop that is possible. I don't have to do anything on the iPad and I've had it for over a year. there's nothing like Android which is all I ever had. but I finally have to learn this IOS operating system. this book certainly help.