Within the Dictation section of Apple's Accessibility preferences you’ll see even more additional extended verbal control commands grouped by category:Ĭommon Punctuation CommandsColon,Comma,Dash,Ellipsis,Exclamation Mark,Hyphen,Period,Question Mark,Quote,End Quote,Begin Single Quote,End Single Quote,Semicolon

This is confusing to a lot of Mac users! Although Dictation Mode is set-up in the DICTATION & SPEECH preference pane, the extended speech recognition commands themselves are subsection of the ACCESSIBILITY preference pane. The Mac's Enhanced Dictation supports dozens of additional commands to edit, format, and navigate that you can turn off or on in the Dictation pane of Accessibility preferences. You can even set up Custom dictation commands to execute specific actions if you’re geeky enough to explore it. The additional commands listed here are always on.

When you’re really serious about leveraging the power of speech to text functions built-into Mac OSX, knowing all the additional verbal commands Apple provides can save you a ton of editing time on the back-end of the process.įor example, you can insert a punctuation mark by saying its name, such as “Question Mark” or “Period”.

Once you’ve enabled Enhanced Dictation mode on your Mac, there are many additional Apple dictation commands that you can use to get the results you want. Comprehensive List Of Mac Dictation Commands

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