Using numbers mode, Dates – Sony ICD-MS515VTP User Manual

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Dictating Names, Numbers, Punctuation & Special Characters

Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide

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These commands change the last number dictated or a selected number.

The “Format That Number” and “Format That Spelled Out” commands work for numerals

and currency, but not for dates, times of day, telephone numbers, and most fractions.

Using Numbers Mode

Any time you need to dictate a series of numbers and do not want Dragon
NaturallySpeaking to recognize them as words, you can turn on Numbers Mode.
This could be useful, for example, if you are dictating in a spreadsheet program,
such as Microsoft

®

Excel

®

.

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” or “Switch
to Normal Mode.

For more information on Numbers Mode and more ways to turn Numbers Mode on
and off, see the section “Switching Recognition Modes” on page 101.

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.”

S A Y

TO C H ANG E

Format That Number

one to 1
first to 1st
nineteenth to 19th
5 million to 5,000,000
five million to 5,000,000
eight dollars to $8 (US/Canada)
seven pounds to £7 (Other Dialects)

Format That Spelled Out

4th to fourth
27 to twenty-seven
5,000,000 to five million

TO ENTE R

SAY

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

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