Voice commands let you do your common tasks more efficiently. You can speak in the command and the action specified is triggered.
For example, to insert full stop : speak "full stop" and a "." will be inserted.
Some useful voice commands:
| Say | Insert |
| comma | , |
| full stop | . |
| period | . |
| question mark | ? |
| semi colon | ; |
| colon | : |
| exclamation mark | ! |
| exclamation point | ! |
| dash | - |
| hyphen | - |
| open parentheses | ( |
| close parentheses | ) |
There are two special commands: <newline> to insert a line break and <undo> to undo the last utterance. You can add:
| Say | Insert |
| new line | <newline> |
| next line | <nextline> |
| undo | <undo> |
You can define your own voice commands. Click on the >_ button in the toolbar to the left to open the Voice Commands panel.
Voice Commands Modal
If you are Pro Member, you can define your own voice command by putting in the word you want to use as command into "Text" and the desired output into "Value". For example, say you want to insert ":-)" every time you say "smiley face", you would do the following:
After you click "Add new row", your command is registered. Now when you dictate, "smiley face" automatically gets replaced with ":-)".
Dictanote also handles automatic capitalization. For example, when you "period now I want smiley", Dictanote will convert it to ". now I want :-)"
More voice commands for creating list, bold, etc are coming soon.
If you have any suggestions to improve this, let us know via support@dictanote.co
Comments
8 comments
would you mind posting a screenshot of where the toolbar is located?
First, congrats for this extension. Does it have Portuguese pre-installed voice commands or do I have to create each one of them, for instance (coma = vírgula, etc.)?
I also have tried to use English voice commands amidst dictation in Portuguese and it didn't work.
Podia ter letra maiúscula depois do ponto. Tem como fazer?
Many of the popular ones like comma should be included, we are working on adding predefined language voice commands.
Capitalization works. For example: saying "i want to test full stop lets see if this gets capitalized" comes out as "I want to test. Let's see if this gets capitalized"
Unable to find the >_ button on the toolbar for setting extra voice commands...and must I toggle the 'mic' on and off between speaking? I thought there was an extra button to do that...?
Como faço para anexar o audio ou video que tenho guardado no ambiente de trabalho, por exemplo?
When I use open/close parentheses, a space is added between the word(s) and the parenthesis signs.
Double punctuation characters should not necessarily be separated by a space. Can this be user-defined?
There are a couple things I wonder about: first, how can i make sure the sentence will start with a capitalized word or what command do I need know to enable this? (it doesn't always do this). next, why is that when i am dictating, some words in the middle of the sentence get capitalized? (is this related to my voice inflection or loudness of my voice when speaking?) Lastly, I find that when I end a sentence or just pause after leaving a period or comma and am gathering my thoughts before continuing, the cursor will move to the left of the last punctuation mark instead of staying on the end (after the comma or period)...?
thanks!
Mark
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