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How To Get The Most Out Of iOS Dictation
Mar 11, 2025
A quick and easy way to get the most out of Dictation on iOS devices. ------------- For more iOS coverage, check out www.cultofmac.com Follow Cult Of Mac on twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/cultofmac Follow Me On twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/michaelsteeber
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hey everyone this is Michael from cult
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to ma here and today I'm going to show
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you how to get the most out of voice
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dictation on your iOS device so both the
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iPhone 4S and now the new iPad both
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support voice dictation a lot of people
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think that you know you can hit the
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microphone button you can say whatever
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you want to say and then you're done and
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that's it but there's actually a lot of
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different stuff that voice dictation
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recognizes that you might be surprised
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with a lot of punctuation all kinds of
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stuff so I'm going to show you today how
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you can get the most out of it so first
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of all there's a lot of obvious stuff
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that it recognizes such as this is a
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sentence
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period so you can see there it gets
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periods now it also does things like
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commas and Dot point so if you say IOS
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5.1 it will get something like that also
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if you want to put a dot between two
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words it understands that as well so
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that's something that not everybody
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knows also do something like an ellipsis
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and it will get that as well
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Ellipsis so you can see there how that
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worked now getting to some more advanced
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stuff uh voice dictation will also
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recognize new line and new paragraph So
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if I would say something like this is a
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test a voice dictation new line it works
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pretty awesome period new paragraph I
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really love voice dictation exclamation
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point so if I move this down you can see
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how it worked and it did the new line it
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did the new paragraph and it all works
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all together and while doesn't work all
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the time in my testing you can also do
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exclamation points and question marks
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and you can also do inverted exclamation
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points as well as question marks so
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we'll try that
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out invert exclamation point this is a
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test exclamation
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point so you can see there it did the
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inverted exclamation point and the
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exclamation point same works with
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question marks as well you can even do
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something like an ampersand I went to
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the restaurant yesterday comma Ampersand
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I had
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a stake period so you can see what it
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did there now this is something that I
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tried to do when I first could use voice
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dictation and I couldn't get it to work
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and there's a little bit of a trick to
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it so you can do something like
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parentheses and brackets things like
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that but you can't just say parenthesis
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or bracket but what you can do is say
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something like this this is a test open
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parenthesis it's pretty neat Clos
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parenthesis and it'll put in parenthesis
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now if you just say parenthesis either
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end it will just write out parentheses
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so that's just a word of note so if I
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would say this is a test parentheses
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it's pretty neat
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parenthesis it doesn't actually put the
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parenthesis around it it'll write out
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parenthesis in this case it said
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breakfast I don't even know what that is
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but anyways it will do that as well I
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can also do Dash this is a test Dash
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those work as well too period you how a
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dash works now if you get into some of
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the more advanced stuff even further
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than that you can can actually specify
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if you don't want it to put a space
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between a word if it's a hyphenated word
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and you don't want a space you can say
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no space before the word and it will
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eliminate any dashes or anything
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hyphenations within the word you can
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also turn on and off capitalization so
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if you start a sentence and you say no
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caps it will not put anything within
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what you're saying in caps you can also
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do all caps so if I say all caps this is
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a
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test so you can see there turns this
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into all caps but if I specify all caps
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on it will turn on all caps for the
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entire selection and when I say all caps
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off it turns it off so for example all
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caps on this is a test all caps
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off I can also turn on and off caps in
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general so for
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example caps on this is a test caps
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off capitalizes every word so to show
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you how can really tie this all together
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and make voice dictation really work for
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you I have a little example story here
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that I'm going to dictate to the iPad
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and we'll see how it works and it kind
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of combines all the elements we talked
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about Michael's story new line the other
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day comma Michael was walking down the
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road period he had walked 3.1 mil comma
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but suddenly he stopped period looking
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down at the ground comma he cried out
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quote all caps on haha I found it all
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caps off exclamation point end quote
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there was an x on the road period open
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parenthesis he thought that X marked the
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spot for Treasure period closed
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parenthesis he would soon find out that
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he was wrong period new paragraph he dug
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down until his hand was bleeding and
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sore Dash nothing period he dug down
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until he was covered in dirt Dash
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nothing period in his blind ignorance
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comma he kept looking for Treasure
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period
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eventually comma tired Ampersand
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embarrassed comma he trudged home period
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new line what a fool
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Ellipsis so there you can see kind of
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how it worked and how you can really
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combine it all for one big story and of
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course there's some errors in here it's
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not perfect but I think it's in a lot of
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cases for quick note taking things like
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that and uh for punctuation too it's way
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easier than typing but that's just my
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opinion so there you go there's how you
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can get the most out of voice cation on
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iOS and I I think it's pretty cool so as
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always if you have anything that you'd
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like to see me do howu on make sure to
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send me an email I hope you found this
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video useful thank you for watching
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