Dictating Special Characters

To enter various keyboard special characters, just say their names.

 

To Enter

  Say

~

Tilde

Exclamation point / Exclamation mark

@

At sign

#

Number sign / pound sign / sharp sign

$

Dollar / dollar sign

%

Percent sign / percentage sign

^

Caret

&

Ampersand or and sign

*

Asterisk

(

Open parenthesis / open paren / left parenthesis

)

Close parenthesis / close paren / right parenthesis

_

Underscore

+

Plus sign

x

Multiplication sign

Division sign

{

Open brace / open curly bracket

}

Close brace / close curly bracket

:

Colon

<

Less than sign / open angle bracket

>

Greater than sign / close angle bracket

Question mark

`

Back quote

-

Hyphen / dash / minus sign

=

Equal / equals / equal sign

[

Open bracket / open square bracket

]

Close bracket / close square bracket

\

Backslash

/

Forward slash

//

Double slash

;

Semicolon

'

Open single quote / close single quote / apostrophe

,

Comma

Period / dot / decimal point