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More About Dictating
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Dictating numbers
You can dictate most numbers as you would normally say them. For
example, you can enter $250.95 by saying “two hundred fifty dollars and
ninety five cents,” and you can enter 4:05 PM by saying “four oh five p m.”
If you ever have trouble getting Dragon NaturallySpeaking to type a
numeral rather than a word (for example, “4” instead of “four”), just say
“numeral” before saying the number. For example, say “numeral four.”
This forces the program to enter the number as a numeral.
To be able to dictate numbers as described in the following sections, you must
keep the “Format numbers, telephone numbers, currency, and times automatically”
option selected in the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Options dialog box (Dictation tab).
Numerals and Zip codes
You can dictate most numbers, including Zip codes, as you would
normally say them.
TO EN TE R
S A Y
1
one (or “numeral one”)
5
five (or “numeral five”)
17
seventeen
23
twenty three
179
one hundred seventy nine (or “one hundred and seventy
nine”)
5423
five thousand four hundred twenty three
5,423
five [comma] four twenty three
12,537
twelve thousand five hundred thirty seven
142,015
one hundred forty two thousand and fifteen
35.23
thirty five [point] two three
0.03
zero [point] oh three
43.28%
forty three [point] twenty eight [percent sign]
02460
oh two four six zero
02460-1458
oh two four six zero [hyphen] one four five eight
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