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The Help topic “Spelling Characters” contains the list of possible pronunciations, including the alpha-

bravo-charlie alphabet and accented characters like “n tilde” and “alpha umlaut”. When spelling out, you can

also say “oh” instead of “zero”.

The Spell Command -- Dictating characters within Normal Mode

IMPORTANT

If you need to dictate a sequence of characters in the middle of normal dictation, the Spell

command is usually faster than switching in and out of Spell mode: while in Normal Mode, you can say “spell”

immediately followed by a sequence of characters (digits, letters, symbols, and space or spacebar). See the

Help for details.

This can also be useful in cases where you want to put on the screen a word that would normally be interpreted

as a symbol or a command. For instance, if you wanted to be sure that Dragon types the word “comma” instead

of the punctuation, you could say “Spell space C O M M A”.

Exercise 7: Dictate “access code: 75Zq/7”, then practice with similar sequences of your choice. (Pause briefly

after the colon, then say “spell 7 5 cap zee cue slash 7”. Try to not pause at all during the sequence; if you

paused, just resume by saying “spell” immediately followed by the rest of your sequence.)

Key points about dictating numbers and special text

Dragon can format dates, times, prices, street addresses, phone numbers, Web addresses, units of 

measure, and other special text automatically. The Auto-Formatting options dialog (from the Tools

menu) lets you turn these built-in rules off or on as desired.

The restricted recognition modes can make dictating special text more efficient. They are accessible 

by voice commands (“Numbers Mode on”, “switch to Normal Mode”) and through the DragonBar’s

Modes menu.

If you will be dictating only numbers and punctuation, consider turning Numbers Mode on.

If dictating a long sequence of characters (letters, digits, punctuation, symbols), consider Spell Mode. 

(The Spell command is good for short sequences which you can say all at once, without pausing, such as

“spell T W O”.)

When spelling out, you can insert a capital letter by saying cap just before the letter, and you can say 

space or spacebar.