Symbols And Characters In Dictation - IBM VIAVOICE 10-STANDARD EDITION User Manual

Symbols and characters in dictation

Some symbols and characters have special actions associated with them. These
actions are noted in the following table. Joins to digits means that the character
is appended to a preceding or following digit without an intervening space.
Joins right means that the character is appended to the next word without an
intervening space.
To get: Say:
& Ampersand
's Apostrophe s
* Asterisk
@ At sign
' Back quote
) Close bracket (UK English)
) Close parenthesis
" Close quote
Close bracket (US English)
]
Close square bracket (UK English)
- Dash
$ Dollar sign
— Double dash
.. Double dot
= Equals
€
Euro sign
! Factorial
- Hyphen
( Left bracket (UK English)
( Left parenthesis (UK English)
Minus (US English)
-
Minus sign (UK English)
# Number sign
( Open bracket (UK English)
( Open parenthesis
" Open quote
Open bracket (US English)
[
Open square bracket (UK English)
% Percent sign
100
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Action:
No special action
Joins left
No special action
No special action
No special action
Joins left
Joins left
Joins left
Joins left
No special action
No special action
No special action
No special action
Joins left and right
No special action
Joins left; the next word is capitalized
Joins left and right
Joins right
Joins right
Joins left and right
Joins right
Joins right
Joins right
Joins right
Joins right
Joins left