Voice typing command | What you can say |
Stop or pause voice typing | Pause voice typing |
Pause dictation | |
Stop voice typing | |
Stop dictation | |
Stop listening | |
Stop dictating | |
Stop voice mode | |
Pause voice mode | |
Delete last spoken word or phrase | Delete that |
Erase that | |
Ignore that | |
Select last spoken word or phrase | Select that |
Note: If a word or phrase is selected, speaking any of the “delete that” commands will remove it.
Punctuation commands
Use voice typing commands to insert punctuation marks.
The following list tells you what you can say. To view supported commands for other languages, change the dropdown to your desired language.
To Insert this | Say this | |
‘ | begin/open single quote | |
’ | end/close single quote | |
- | Hyphen | |
minus sign | ||
— | m-dash | |
! | exclamation mark/point | |
# | number/pound sign | |
$ | dollar sign | |
% | Percent sign | |
& | ampersand, and sign | |
( | left/open parentheses | |
) | right/close parentheses | |
* | asterisk | |
, | comma | |
. | period, full stop | |
... | ellipsis, dot dot dot | |
/ | forward slash | |
: | colon | |
? | question mark | |
@ | at sign, at mention | |
[ | left/open (square) bracket | |
\ | backslash | |
] | right/close (square) bracket | |
^ | caret symbol | |
_ | underscore | |
` | backquote, backtick | |
{ | left/open (curly) brace | |
| | vertical bar sign/character, pipe character | |
} | right/close (curly) brace | |
~ | tilde symbol | |
“ | open quotes | |
” | close quotes | |
£ | pound sterling sign | |
¥ | yen sign | |
€ | euro sign | |
+ | plus sign | |
< | less than sign, left/open angle bracket | |
<3 | heart emoji | |
= | equal sign | |
> | greater than sign, right/close angle bracket | |
± | plus or minus sign | |
× | multiplication sign | |
÷ | division sign | |
§ | section sign | |
° | degree symbol/sign | |
¶ | paragraph sign/mark | |
new line | new/next line | |
new paragraph | new paragraph | |
's | apostrophe-s |