The Tips - Mac Kung Fu - page 14

• Using title case (capitalizing the start of each word): Say “caps on” before
the words you want in title case and then say “caps off” after. For example,
for the phrase “The Town of Bath is Lovely in Spring,” you'd say “ caps on
the town of bath is lovely in spring caps off .”
• Block capitals: To capitalize an entire word (the equivalent of using Caps Lock
when typing), say “all caps.” For the phrase “I need the report RIGHT NOW,”
you'd dictate “I need the report all caps on right now all caps off .” An individ-
ual word can be put in capitals by just saying “all caps” before it: “I need the
report all caps now and not later” produces “I need the report NOW and not
later.”
• All lowercase: To dictate words without any capitalization whatsoever,
use “no caps” in the same way as described for “all caps.” Dictating “I
want to live in no caps on new york no caps off ” produces “I want to live
in new york.”
• Prevent hyphenation: OS X's Dictation feature is clever enough to
hyphenate words that need it, but you can stop it from doing so by saying
“spacebar”: “This is a low spacebar budget enterprise” will produce “This
is a low budget enterprise.”
• Force hyphenation: Should you say something you think should be hy-
phenated but OS X's Dictation doesn't realize, you can simply say “hyphen”
—“He was a no hyphen good man” will type “He was a no-good man.”
• Remove spaces altogether: To create a sentence or series of words without
spaces between them ( compounding words), use “no space.” As with the
dictation terms earlier, it can be used singularly to indicate two words
should be joined, or it can be turned “on” and “off” before and after a
series of words: “We are best no space friends” will type “We are best-
friends”; saying “We are no space on best friends forever no space off ” will
type “We are bestfriendsforever.”
• Inserting line breaks: To insert a line break, just say “new line.” To insert
a paragraph break (that is, an empty line before the following sentence),
just say “new para.”
Specifying Punctuation, Symbols, and Numerals
In most cases, inserting punctuation is intuitive and obvious. Saying “full
stop” or “period” will insert that symbol, for example. Saying “copyright sign”
will insert a copyright symbol, and saying “at sign” will insert @. Saying
“inverted question mark” will produce the ¿ symbol.