Jim Rhoades of Crush Apps has made an extensive list of commands that Siri’s dictation service understands.
| new line | move to the next line (like pressing “Return” on a keyboard) |
| new paragraph | to start a new paragraph |
| all caps | to make the next word all uppercaseFor example, saying: I am hungry feed me all caps now pleaseproduces the text: I am hungry feed me NOW please |
| all caps on … all caps off | to make part of what you say uppercaseFor example, saying: I am hungry all caps on feed me now all caps off pleaseproduces the text: I am hungry FEED ME NOW please |
| no caps | to make the next word lowercaseFor example, saying: I like no caps Mikeproduces the text: I like mike |
| no caps on … no caps off | to make sure part of what you say is all lowercaseFor example, saying: Our friends no caps on Steve and Tina no caps off live in Californiaproduces the text: Our friends steve and tina live in California |
| space bar | to prevent a hyphen from appearing in a normally hyphenated wordFor example, saying: This restaurant is first space bar classprevents first-class from being hyphenated, and produces the text: This restaurant is first class |
| period | . |
| comma | , |
| apostrophe | ‘(although in many cases, apostrophes are automatically inserted, like when saying Sam’s new iPhone) |
| exclamation point | ! |
| question mark | ? |
| ampersand | & |
| asterisk | * |
| open parenthesis | ( |
| close parenthesis | ) |
| open bracket | [ |
| close bracket | ] |
| open brace | { |
| close brace | } |
| dash | -For example, saying: This dash is dash my dash cheeseproduces the text: This – is – my – cheese(note the difference in spacing between this and when saying hyphen) |
| hyphen | -For example, saying: This hyphen is hyphen my hyphen cheeseproduces the text: This-is-my-cheese(note the difference in spacing between this and when saying dash) |
| em dash | — |
| percent sign | % |
| copyright sign | © |
| registered sign | ® |
| section sign | § |
| dollar sign | $ |
| cent sign | ¢ |
| degree sign | ° |
| caret | ^ |
| at sign | @ |
| pound sterling sign | £ |
| pound sign | # |
| greater than sign | > |
| less than sign | < |
| forward slash | / |
| back slash | \ |
| vertical bar | | |
| smiley (or smiley face, or smile face) | 🙂 |
| frowny (or frowny face, or frown face) | 😦 |
| winky (or winky face, or wink face) | 😉 |
See Rhoades’ post on the Crush Apps blog for the full list of Siri dictation commands.
Rough Notes 