What's new
Apple iPad Forum 🍎

Welcome to the Apple iPad Forum, your one stop source for all things iPad. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Dictation Tips and Tricks

OP
twerppoet

twerppoet

iPad Fan
Joined
Jan 8, 2011
Messages
24,127
Reaction score
15,328
Location
Milton-Freewater, OR
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.
 
OP
twerppoet

twerppoet

iPad Fan
Joined
Jan 8, 2011
Messages
24,127
Reaction score
15,328
Location
Milton-Freewater, OR
Three more handy symbols.

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


Edit: now added to the first post.
 
Last edited:
OP
twerppoet

twerppoet

iPad Fan
Joined
Jan 8, 2011
Messages
24,127
Reaction score
15,328
Location
Milton-Freewater, OR
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.
 
Last edited:
OP
twerppoet

twerppoet

iPad Fan
Joined
Jan 8, 2011
Messages
24,127
Reaction score
15,328
Location
Milton-Freewater, OR
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.
 
OP
twerppoet

twerppoet

iPad Fan
Joined
Jan 8, 2011
Messages
24,127
Reaction score
15,328
Location
Milton-Freewater, OR
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

iPad Fan
Joined
Oct 20, 2012
Messages
2,114
Reaction score
900
Location
Canada
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! :D
 
OP
twerppoet

twerppoet

iPad Fan
Joined
Jan 8, 2011
Messages
24,127
Reaction score
15,328
Location
Milton-Freewater, OR
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

iPad Fan
Joined
Oct 20, 2012
Messages
2,114
Reaction score
900
Location
Canada
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?
 
OP
twerppoet

twerppoet

iPad Fan
Joined
Jan 8, 2011
Messages
24,127
Reaction score
15,328
Location
Milton-Freewater, OR
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

iPF Noob
Joined
Nov 23, 2014
Messages
8
Reaction score
2
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.
 

Most reactions

Latest posts

Top