I think when dictating, you can say something like "no space," and it will take 
the word you just said, along with the word you will say next, and not put a 
space between them. I think I saw something about this in iPhone: The Missing 
Manual.


Thanks,
Ari

On Apr 9, 2013, at 4:34 PM, "Lauren Simmons" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Donna,
> 
> I'm sure that if you read the edit field character by character you will find 
> that the asterisk has been spelled letter by letter rather than the single 
> symbol being entered. There might also be a space between the period and the 
> letters MP3 rather than the entire string of characters having been entered 
> as one would like when running this type of search.
> 
> LS
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Entering symbols like Star and brackets
> 
> 
> Try saying astrix, instead of star. This just worked for me. I have an iPhone 
> 5. Don't kmow if this would make a difference.
> 
> Donna
> 
> On Apr 9, 2013, at 5:21 PM, "Lauren Simmons" <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> So do you have any solution for entering the following in an edit field like 
>> in iPhone or iPod touch Search:
>> *.MP3
>> 
>> I specified in my original post that I did in fact try using Siri. I'm 
>> looking for suggestions on how to have Siri enter unusual single characters 
>> as is right now Siri is spelling out each word used to describe the 
>> character. For example, when wanting to enter *.MP3, Siri spells the 
>> following:
>> Star dot MP3
>> 
>> LS
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Woody Anna Dresner" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 11:04 AM
>> Subject: Re: Entering symbols like Star and brackets
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I did once use siri to enter a pound sign when I couldn't find it. Tap the 
>>> Dictation button, speak the character you want, such as "degree sign," and 
>>> double-tap with two fingers to stop the dictation.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Anna
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 9, 2013, at 7:32 AM, Lauren Simmons <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> How does one quickly enter unusual symbols such as asterist (*),
>>>> brackets, degrees symbols, etc? I know how to enter manually using the
>>>> touch pad, but this involves 3 different layers including More symbols
>>>> and then shift with more symbols. I'm actually hoping to use Siri
>>>> within Search to quickly look for something like the following:
>>>> *.MP3
>>>> 
>>>> If anyone knows of any tips and tricks to dictating this kind of
>>>> search edit field entry I'm all ears. Big thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> LS
>>>> 
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