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.
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
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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...?
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