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CHAPTER 6
Numbers and Punctuation
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Telephone numbers outside North America
To dictate other phone numbers, including European phone numbers,
you must say all the punctuation, including the hyphens, spaces, and
parentheses.
In dialects other than US/Canada, you can say “bracket” instead of
“parenthesis.”
Fractions
You can dictate most common fractions the way you would normally say
them. To dictate 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/10, and 1/16 or a
multiple of these fractions, just say the fraction normally.
If the denominator (bottom number in the fraction) is greater than 10,
you can enter the fraction by saying “slash” or “over” between the two
numbers.
TO ENTE R SAY
[phone] [open parenthesis] oh one six two eight [close
parenthesis] eight nine four one five oh
027 629 8944 oh two seven [space bar] six two nine [space
bar] eight nine four four
61-7-4695-2055 six one [hyphen] seven [hyphen] four six nine
five [hyphen] two zero five five
(65) 2778590 [open parenthesis] six five [close parenthesis]
two seven seven eight five nine zero
TO ENTE R SAY
1/2 one half
1/4 one fourth or one quarter
15/16 fifteen sixteenths or fifteen over sixteen
3 7/8 three and seven eighths or three and seven over eight
TO ENTE R SAY
9/12 nine [slash] twelve or nine over twelve
5 3/56 five [space bar] three [slash] fifty six
130/70 one thirty over seventy
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