I’m sure you’ve heard and watched a lot of videos of Siri, the personal assistant for the iPhone 4S. It is amazing and like no other voice recognition software out there. I’ve already shared almost all the things that you can ask Siri and now, here’s a post on what commands can be used for Siri dictation.
Siri also has the ability to convert everything you speak into text, and it is very accurate depending on your accent. You can dictate a message, write notes, emails or anything without even using the keyboard. To help the task of Siri dictation easier for you, Jim Rhoades of Crush Apps has come up with a complete list of commands that you can use.
To activate Siri dictation, just hold the Mic button on the keyboard and start speaking. Using the list below, you can add a lot more to your text than just words and letters. Hopefully, we’ll have a working port of Siri on iPhone 4 or iOS 5 devices and try this too.
Say this … | … to do this |
|---|---|
| new line | move to the next line (like pressing “Return” on a keyboard) |
| new paragraph | to start a new paragraph |
| cap | to capitalize the next wordFor example, saying: I named my pet pig cap bacon produces the text: (interestingly, if you say “Kevin Bacon”, Bacon is automatically capitalized for you) |
| caps on … caps off | to capitalize a section of textFor example, saying: caps on twenty five ways to eat bacon caps off produces the text: |
| all caps | to make the next word all uppercaseFor example, saying: I am hungry feed me all caps now please produces the text: |
| all caps on … all caps off | to make part of what you say uppercaseFor example, saying: I am hungry all caps on feed me now all caps off please produces the text: |
| no caps | to make the next word lowercaseFor example, saying: I like no caps Mike produces the text: |
| no caps on … no caps off | to make sure part of what you say is all lowercaseFor example, saying: Our friends no caps on Steve and Tina no caps off live in California produces the text: |
| space bar | to prevent a hyphen from appearing in a normally hyphenated wordFor example, saying: This restaurant is first space bar class prevents first-class from being hyphenated, and produces the text: |
| no space | to prevent a space between wordsFor example, saying: This is the best no space tasting bacon ever produces the text: |
| no space on … no space off | to prevent a section of text from having spaces between wordsFor example, saying: This is no space on the best tasting bacon no space off ever produces the text: |
| “period” or “full stop” | to place a “.” at the end of a sentence |
| dot | .For example, saying: The dot number pi is three dot one four produces the text: (note the subtle difference between saying point and dot… dotworks between words) |
| point | .For example, saying: The point number pi is three point one four produces the text: (note the subtle difference between saying point and dot… dotworks between words) |
| “ellipsis” or “dot dot dot” | … |
| comma | , |
| double comma | ,, |
| “quote” or “quotation mark” | ”(although, if you need to place some text within quotation marks, using the “quote … end quote” commands may be more accurate) |
| quote … end quote | to place quotes around a section of textFor example, saying: She said quote see you next week end quote produces the text: |
| apostrophe | ‘(although in many cases, apostrophes are automatically inserted, like when saying Sam’s new iPhone) |
| exclamation point | ! |
| inverted exclamation point | ¡ |
| question mark | ? |
| inverted question mark | ¿ |
| ampersand | & |
| asterisk | * |
| open parenthesis | ( |
| close parenthesis | ) |
| open bracket | [ |
| close bracket | ] |
| open brace | { |
| close brace | } |
| dash | -For example, saying: This dash is dash my dash cheese produces the text: (note the difference in spacing between this and when sayinghyphen) |
| hyphen | -For example, saying: This hyphen is hyphen my hyphen cheese produces the text: (note the difference in spacing between this and when sayingdash) |
| em dash | — |
| underscore | _ |
| percent sign | % |
| copyright sign | © |
| registered sign | ® |
| section sign | § |
| dollar sign | $ |
| cent sign | ¢ |
| euro sign | € |
| yen sign | ¥ |
| degree sign | ° |
| caret | ^ |
| at sign | @ |
| pound sterling sign | £ |
| pound sign | # |
| greater than sign | > |
| less than sign | < |
| forward slash | / |
| back slash | \ |
| vertical bar | | |
| “smiley” or “smiley face” or “smile face” | 🙂 |
| “frowny” or “frowny face” or “frown face” | 🙁 |
| “winky” or “winky face” or “wink face” | 😉 |
| e.g. (pronounced as “e g”) | e.g.For example, saying: e g when you learn to ride a bike produces the text: |
| i.e. (pronounced as “i e”) | i.e.For example, saying: i e when you learn to ride a bike produces the text: |
Have you tried Siri yet? What do you think of its speech to text capabilities?
very nice post, can you also come up with the same dictation commands for speaktoit assistant for android, i like that app very much.
that’s quite impressive, when is Siri coming of iPod ?
only thing i feel is missing grom dictation within apps and message app is the ability to send the message with your voice without having to hit the send button ( i know that if you actualy use siri to send a message , she does that for you, but i wish it could be used in message app as well)