Voice Recognition Commands

Voice Recognition commands can be spoken during dictation to quicken the time required to write and format letters. Commands can include navigating around the letter, syntax, correcting mistakes, starting/stopping recording and more.

Content of Commands

Dates

Times

Dates

Be unambiguous:

To get	Say
January 1, 2011	January first two thousand and eleven
01/01/2011	oh one oh one two thousand and eleven

You can omit the year.

If you say	You get
January first	January 1
the twentieth of May	May 20

You can omit the day.

If you say	You get
June nineteen ninety four	June 1994

Times

Use the phrases ‘o’clock’, ‘AM’ and ‘PM’.

To get	Say
The patient came at 10 o'clock a.m.	the patient came at ten o'clock AM period

Measurements

	To get	Say
Weight	152 pounds	one hundred and fifty two pounds
Blood pressure	122/80	one hundred twenty two slash eighty
Temperature	37 degrees Celcius	thirty seven degrees celsius
	99 degrees Fahrenheit	ninety nine degrees fahrenheit
Dosage	50 mcg	fifty micrograms
	50 mg	fifty milligrams

Punctuation marks

You must say punctuation marks.

To get	Say
a new paragraph	new paragraph/next paragraph
a new line	new line/next line
"	open quote/begin quote/close quote/end quote
:	colon/colon mark
;	semi-colon
.	full stop/period
?	question mark
!	exclamation mark/exclamation point
,	comma
(	left parenthesis/open parenthesis
)	right parenthesis/close parenthesis

Symbols

You must say symbols.

To get	Say
*	asterisk
/	slash
\	backslash
%	percent sign

Numbers

In most cases you can say numbers as normal.

To get	Say
4	four/numeral four
23	twenty three
179	one hundred seventy nine/one hundred and seventy nine/one seventy nine
142,015	one hundred forty two thousand and fifteen
11/32	eleven over thirty two
200 kg	two hundred kilograms
2/5	two fifths/two out of five

Voice Recognition Commands

Correction

accept defaults

Accepts the default value of all auto-text fields and removes the field delimiters in all fields.

all caps that

Formats the selected text or the last thing you said as capital letters.

cap that

Capitalizes the first letter of each selected word or all words of the last thing you said.

delete word / scratch that word / scratch word

Deletes the word with the cursor focus (including any punctuation next to the word).

deselect that / unselect that

Cancels the selection.

field complete

Accepts the default value and removes the field delimiters of the auto-text field with the focus.

go back

Returns the cursor focus to before the previous selection command.

redo that / redo last action redo

Redoes the previous operation.

scratch that / delete that

Deletes the last thing you said.

select all

Selects all text in your dictation.

select first paragraph

Selects the paragraph at the beginning of your dictation.

select first sentence

Selects the sentence at the beginning of your dictation.

select first word

Selects the word at the beginning of your dictation.

select last paragraph

Selects the paragraph at the end of your dictation.

select last sentence

Selects the sentence at the end of your dictation.

select last word

Selects the word at the end of your dictation.

select next paragraph

Selects the next paragraph.

select next sentence

Selects the next sentence.

select next word

Selects the next word.

select previous paragraph

Selects the previous paragraph.

select previous sentence

Selects the previous sentence.

select previous word

Selects the previous word.

select this paragraph

Selects the paragraph with the cursor focus.

select this sentence

Selects the sentence with the cursor focus.

select this word

Selects the word with the cursor focus.

undo that

Undo last action

Navigation

end of field / go to end of field / move to end of field

Navigates to the end of the field.

first field

Navigates to the first field.

go to Background Information / move to Background Information