How To Use Siri Speech to Text on iPad and iPhone toDictate Articles and Blogs

new line

go to next line, like return

new paragraph

start a new paragraph

cap

to make the next word start with a capital letter

caps on ... caps off

to make all words start with capital letters

all caps

makes the next word all upper case

all caps on ... all caps off

all words between the 2 commands will be all capital letters

no caps

makes the next word all lower case

no caps on ... no caps off

makes all words between the 2 commands appear in lower case

"period" or "full stop"

enters a period or full stop

comma

, enters a comma

double comma

,, enters 2 commas

quote ... end quote

quote.. Say quotation ... end quote

apostrophe

adds an apostrophe

exclamation point

! Adds an exclamation point

inverted exclamation point

¡ adds and inverted exclamation point

question mark

? Adds a question mark

inverted question mark

¿ adds an inverted question mark

ampersand

& - adds an ampersand

asterisk

* - adds an asterisk

open parenthesis

( - adds an open parenthesis

close parenthesis

) - adds an close parenthesis

open bracket

[ - adds an open bracket

close bracket

] - adds a close bracket

open brace

- adds an open brace

close brace

- adds an close brace

hyphen

- adds a hyphen

em dash

-- - adds a em dash

underscore

_ - adds an underscore

percent sign

% - adds a percent sign

copyright sign

© - adds a copyright sign

registered sign

® - adds a registered sign

section sign

§ - adds a section sign

dollar sign

$ - adds a dollar sign

cent sign

¢ - adds a cent sign

euro sign

EUR - adds a euro sign

yen sign

Â¥ - adds a yen sign

degree sign

° - adds a degree sign

caret

^ - adds a caret

at sign

@ - adds a at sign

pound sterling sign

£ - adds a pound sterling sign

pound sign

# - adds a pound sign

greater than sign

>Â - adds a greater than sign

less than sign

<Â - adds a less than sign

forward slash

/ - adds a forward slash

back slash

\ - adds a back slash

vertical bar

| - adds a vertical bar

"smiley face"

- adds a smiley face

"frowny face"

- adds a frowny face

"winky face"

- adds a winky face

e g

e.g. - adds an e g

I e

i.e. - adds an I e