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Figure 5-7
AllCaps On - Capitalizes every letter of the words dictated,
until you say “All Caps Off”. For example, if you say, “This is
the title of the book” it will be dictated as “THIS IS THE TITLE
OF THE BOOK”. The top indicator light in the Status Window
will turn green and show the text “ABC” (Figure 5-8).
Figure 5-8
NoCaps On - Turns off capitalization of the first letter of every
word dictated, until you say “NoCaps Off”. For example, if
you say, “This is the title of the book due out in January” it will
be dictated as “this is the title of the book due out in january”.
The top indicator light in the Status Window will turn green
and show the text “abc” (Figure 5-9).
Figure 5-9
When you turn any of these commands off (with the Caps Off,
or AllCaps Off, or NoCaps Off commands), then MacSpeech
Dictate resumes automatic capitalization and the indicator
light in the Status Window will be gray.
Hyphenated and compound words
The behavior for dashes and hyphens is slightly different
depending on what you are dictating. For most things,
MacSpeech Dictate puts a space before and after a dash. If
you dictate a US phone number, however, MacSpeech Dictate
will correctly type it without the spaces before and after the
dash.
To make a hyphenated word, you would need to say “hyphen”
where you want the hyphen to appear, as follows:
“free HYPHEN wheeling”
Compound words and No Space commands
The No Space commands are useful when you want to type
words without spaces in between them:
“No Space” Commands
What You Say What Happens
No Space On
Turns the No Space mode on, so there is
no space between words.
No Space Off Turns the No Space mode off
No Space <word>
Types the next word without a space in
front of it.
For compound words you could say No Space On before you
say the compound word, and then say No Space Off after you
finish speaking the word. For example, to have MacSpeech
Dictate type “AppleTV” you would say the following:
“NO SPACE ON Apple TV NO SPACE OFF”
The middle indicator light in the Status Window lights up
green when the No Space On command is activated (Figure
5-10).
Figure 5-10
You can also say No Space <word> to type the next word
without putting a space in front of it. Using the same example,
you would say:
“Apple NO SPACE TV”
The middle indicator light in the Status window lights up
orange when you say “No Space” and stays lit until you say
the <word> portion of the command (Figure 5-11).
Figure 5-11
Punctuation
There are a variety of things you can say to have MacSpeech
Dictate type punctuation and symbols. The following table
lists the various things you can say, and what MacSpeech
Dictate will type: