Punctuation: Apostrophe (‘), open bracket (), open parenthesis (() and close parenthesis ()) open brace (), open angle bracket (), colon (:), comma (,), dash (-), ellipsis or dot dot dot (…), exclamation mark (!), hyphen (–), period or point or dot or full stop (.), question mark (?), quote and end quote (“), begin single quote and end single quote (‘), semicolon ( ).We tried to arrange them in a quick list you can easily skim, but you can also find the list in longer form on Apple’s website: Here are the voice dictation commands that work on an iPhone or iPad. To enter “Hello, how are you? I’m doing well.” you’d have to speak the words “Hello comma how are you question mark I’m doing well period.” Just as with Android, Siri won’t automatically insert punctuation marks. After you do, the words you spoke will appear in the text field. Instead, you’ll need to speak your message and then tap Done. You’ll see a Siri prompt and you can start speaking immediately. Because it interprets your voice, Apple refers to this feature as part of Siri. On an iPhone or iPad, bring up the keyboard in any app and tap the microphone icon to the left of the space bar to start using voice dictation. For example, the Swype keyboard includes integrated Dragon Dictation features. We used the Google Keyboard here, but you can install other keyboards on Android to get different voice dictation engines. There’s no voice command to go back and delete a word, so you’d have to tap the Delete button or go back and edit your text afterwards. Attempt to use it for documents with complex formatting or symbols and you’ll have some problems. RELATED: 5 Android Keyboard Replacements to Help You Type FasterĪndroid’s voice dictation is good for conversational messages, such as text messages, searches, emails, tweets, and quick notes. Unfortunately, Android’s list of voice dictation commands is very limited compared to the comprehensive set available on iPhone and iPad. Line spacing: Enter or new line, new paragraph.

Punctuation: Period (.), comma (,), question mark (?), exclamation or exclamation point (!).

Here are the handful of voice dictation commands that work on Android:

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