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Including hyphens as you dictate, Removing hyphens, Preventing hyphens – Sony ICD-BP150VTP User Manual

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C H A P T E R 6

Numbers and Punctuation

Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide

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Including hyphens as you dictate

To hyphenate words that Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

doesn’t hyphenate

automatically, just say “hyphen” wherever you want a hyphen.

You can hyphenate words you just dictated with the command
“Hyphenate That.” Select the words you want to hyphenate and say
Hyphenate That.” If you say this command when no words are selected,
Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

will usually hyphenate the last few words

that you said.

Removing hyphens

You can remove a hyphen by selecting it and replacing it with a space.

To remove a hyphen:

1

Say “Select hyphen.”

2

Say “Space Bar.”

Preventing hyphens

You can prevent Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

from entering a hyphen by

pausing where the hyphen would normally be.

For example, to type “long lasting” (normally hyphenated) say “long,”
then pause for a moment, and then say “lasting.” Or you can say “long
space bar lasting”
without pausing, to insert a space in place of the
hyphen.

Dictating compound words

Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

joins compound words (such as “notebook”)

automatically, based on standard usage. To dictate a compound word,
just say it as you normally would.

TO EN TE R

SA Y

speech-recognition software

speech [hyphen] recognition software

power-sharing agreement

power [hyphen] sharing agreement

Elizabeth Walker-Smith

Elizabeth Walker [hyphen] Smith

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