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Live-Voice Commands & Editing

Updated 29th Jun 2023

Punctuation

Voice commands for common punctuation and formatting:

• Full stop
• Comma
• New line
• New paragraph
• ‘Colon’ must be dictated as “double-point” as ‘colon’ is a medical term
• Question mark
• Exclamation mark
• Open bracket, close bracket
• Open quote, close quote
• Hyphen
• Dot dot dot
• Over = /
• Next bullet

 

Numbered Lists

To dictate numbered lists, use the command ‘number one’ then ‘number two’ etc. for subsequent items.

 

For example, saying:

 

“Diagnoses number one hypertension number two glaucoma number three diabetes new paragraph thank you for referring this 47 year old gentleman.”

 

Will be displayed as:

 

Diagnoses:

1. Hypertension
2. Glaucoma
3. Diabetes

 

“Thank you for referring this 47-year-old gentleman.”

 

You can also instead dictate subsequent items using the command ‘next number’ e.g. “diagnoses number one hypertension next number glaucoma next number diabetes.“

 

For MS Word users

If you have auto-numbering turned on you should use slightly different voice commands:

 

“diagnoses number one hypertension new line glaucoma new line diabetes new paragraph thankyou for referring this 47 year old gentleman.”

 

Goes to:

Diagnoses

1.   Hypertension
2.   Glaucoma
3.   Diabetes

 

“Thank you for referring this 47 year old gentleman.”

 

Text Navigation

Action	Voice command
Jump to next [ ] – aka ‘blank field’	Next item
Jump to previous [ ] – aka ‘blank field’	Previous item
Jump to start of line	Start of line
Jump to end of line	End of line
Jump to end of text	End of text
Select line (if at start of line – shift+down arrow)	Select line

 

UI Navigation

Action	Voice command
Click a UI button	Click button, press button
Check / uncheck a checkbox	Click box, click checkbox
Open a dropdown	Click list, Click drop down
Press spacebar	Press space
Press enter	Press enter
Press tab (moves between fields / form elements)	Next field, press tab
Press shift+tab (moves back a field / form element)	Previous field

Editing

Deleting

To delete the last recognised word say “delete that” or “scratch that”.

 

Select & replace

To select a word and replace it with another word

1. Say “select text”
2. Say the text you want to select e.g. “gentleman”
3. (If multiple matches are found say which one you want e.g. “number two”)
4. Say the word you want to replace it with e.g. “lady”

 

E.g. “select text gentleman lady”

 

 

 

 

Capitalisation

You can capitalise a single letter using “capital”.

 

For example:

“capital b one sample is five by five centimeters”

Is returned as:

‘B1 sample is 5 x 5 cm’

 

Pathologists – to enable block keys A1 to A100 please contact support@dictate.it

 

You can force a word to ALL CAPS using “in capital”.

 

For example:

“thank you for referring this in capital gentleman today”

is returned as:

‘Thank you for referring this GENTLEMAN today’

 

Formatting

Action	Voice command
Toggles bold mode on/off (only in Word)	In bold
Bolds selected text	Bold that
Toggles underline mode on/off (only in Word)	Underline
Underlines selected text	Underline that
Toggles italics mode on/off (only in Word)	In italics
Italicises selected text	In italics