Sony ICD-BP150VTP - Manual (Page 72)

C H A P T E R 6 Numbers and Punctuation
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 64
To turn on Numbers Mode, say “Start Numbers Mode” or “Numbers Mode
On.” To turn off Numbers Mode, say, “Stop Numbers Mode” or “Numbers
Mode Off.”
For more information on Numbers Mode and more ways to turn
Numbers Mode on and off, see the section “Modes” on page 80.
Dates
You can dictate most dates the way you would normally say them. Say
“oh” or “zero” to enter 0. In dialects other than US/Canada, you can also
say “nought.”
Times of day
Dictate the time of day the way you would normally say it.
US/Canada: Dragon NaturallySpeaking ® automatically types the colon
(:) if you say “a m” or “p m” when dictating the time. Say “o’clock” or
“colon zero zero” to enter :00.
TO EN TE R SA Y
22 January 1999 twenty two January nineteen ninety nine
April 9, 2001 April 9 [comma] two thousand and one
14/07/85 fourteen [slash] oh seven [slash] eighty five
3/11/02 three [slash] eleven [slash] zero two
3/11/2002 three [slash] eleven [slash] two thousand and two
April 1st April first
March 22nd March twenty second
the 1980s the nineteen eighties
TO EN TE R SA Y
8:30 eight [colon] thirty or eight [numeric colon] thirty
7:45 AM seven forty five a m
10:22 PM ten twenty two p m
3:00 three o’clock or three [colon] zero zero
5:00 PM five o’clock p m