Hi,

dictation knows specific words like "comma", "period", and "numeral".  Also, 
using normal English grammatical conventions, numbers less than 10 are normally 
written as words.  Therefore, if you say the number "eight" in a sentence, 
Dictation will put it as a word instead of the digit.  If you wish it to be the 
digit, say the word "numeral" prior to the word "eight".  Numbers larger than 
10 should automatically be entered as digits.

You can say things like "new line" if you wish to enter a carriage return.  
There are some special words that are different depending on your locale such 
as "period" for North American English and "full stop" in the UK.

I'm comfortable with being corrected on some of these, as I'm certainly not an 
expert on the dictation feature.  Apple has support documents on-line for this 
as well.

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On May 22, 2016, at 10:06, Scott Berry <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello there

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to make dictation work with 
numbers spaces and punctuation?


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