Dates, Times of day – 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

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

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