ScanSoft ICD-BP150VTP Dragon Naturally Speaking 7 User Manual page 92

8 Dictating Names, Numbers, Punctuation & Special Characters
Times of day
Dictate the time of day the way you would normally say it.
US/Canada: Dragon NaturallySpeaking automatically types the colon (:) if you say
"a m" or "p m" when dictating the time. Say "o'clock" or "colon zero zero" to enter:00.
TO E N T E R
8:30
7:45 AM
10:22 PM
3:00
5:00 PM
TIP
instead of "colon" when dictating times.
Other Dialects: Dragon NaturallySpeaking automatically types the point (.) if you
say "a m" or "p m" when dictating the time, depending on the regional setting. Say
"o'clock" or "point zero zero" to enter .00.
TO E N T E R
8.30
7.45 AM
10.22 PM
3.00
5.00 PM
NOTE
Telephone numbers
North American phone numbers
Say US and Canadian phone numbers as you normally would, pausing briefly
between each group of numbers.
86
S A Y
eight [colon] thirty or eight [numeric colon] thirty
seven forty five a m
ten twenty two p m
three o'clock or three [colon] zero zero
five o'clock p m
Dragon NaturallySpeaking will recognize times more accurately if you say "numeric colon"
S A Y
eight [point] thirty
seven forty five a m
ten twenty two p m
three o'clock
five o'clock p m
The format of "a.m." and "p.m." depends on your computer's regional Windows
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User's Guide
® settings.