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8
Dictating Names, Numbers, Punctuation & Special Characters
Currency and coin
You can dictate your own currency as you would normally say it.
Currency in US/Canada (US English dialect)
TO E N TE R
$58.00
$1.75
$5.25
$3.9 billion
45
99.50
£ 2.20
£ 5 million
Currency in Other Dialects (UK, Australian, Indian, and Southeast Asian English)
TO E N TE R
$58.00
$1.75
4.25
3.9 billion
£ 45
£ 99.50
£ 2.20
£ 5 million
NOTE
Windows Regional Settings as your default currency.
Dictate other currencies by first saying the currency symbol followed by the digits.
US/Canada: If your Regional Settings are set to the United States or Canada, your
default currency is $ (dollar). If you want to dictate a dollar currency amount, dictate
it the way you normally do. If you want to dictate a pound sterling currency amount,
say, for example, "pound sterling sign fifty eight" (to enter £ 58), and so on.
TIP
U.S. vocabulary. In all other dialects, you can say "pound sign" to type £.
Other Dialects: If your Regional Settings are set to the United Kingdom, your
default currency is £ (pound sterling). If you want to dictate a pound sterling
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SA Y
fifty eight dollars and zero cents
one dollar and seventy five cents
five dollars and twenty five cents
three point nine billion dollars
forty five euros
ninety-nine euros and five cents
pound sterling sign two point two oh
pound sterling sign five million
SA Y
dollar sign fifty eight
dollar sign one point seventy five
four euros and twenty five cents
three point nine billion euros
forty five pounds
ninety nine pounds and fifty pence
two pounds twenty
five million pounds
Dragon NaturallySpeaking uses the currency symbol ($, £, and so on) specified in your
In US/Canada, you must say "pound sterling sign" to enter £, since "pound sign" means # in the
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