Dictation commands for English

A list of commands that you can use for dictation when working with files whose target language is set to English.

AreaActionCommand
Turn off dictationstop dictation
Select the last text inserted by using dictationselect last
PunctuationInsert a period (.)period
Insert a comma (,)comma
Insert an exclamation mark (!)exclamation mark
Insert a question mark (?)question mark
Insert a hyphen (-)hyphen
Insert an em dash (—)em dash
Insert an en dash (–)en dash
Insert a colon (:)colon
Insert a semicolon (;)semicolon
Special charactersInsert a pair of single quotation marks (‘’)single quote
Insert a new linenew line
Insert a tabtab
Insert a spacespace
Insert a non-breaking hyphennon-breaking hyphen
Insert an optional hyphenoptional hyphen
Insert a non-breaking spacenon-breaking space
Insert a copyright symbol (©)copyright symbol
Insert a registered symbol (®)registered symbol
Insert a trademark symbol (™)trademark symbol
Insert a euro symbol (€)euro symbol
Insert a pound symbol (£)pound symbol
Insert a pair of German quotation marks („“)German quotation marks
Insert a pair of English quotation marks (“”)English quotation marks
Insert a pair of angular quotation marks («  »)angle quotation marks
Insert an apostrophe (')apostrophe
Insert a micro symbol (µ)micro symbol
Insert an approximation symbol (≈)approximately symbol
Insert a tilde (~)tilde symbol
Insert a not equal symbol (≠)not equal symbol
Insert a degree symbol (°)degree symbol
Insert a less than or equal symbol (≤)less than or equal symbol
Insert a greater than or equal symbol (≥)greater than or equal symbol
Insert a lowercase alpha symbol (α)lowercase alpha symbol
Insert a lowercase beta symbol (β)lowercase beta symbol
Insert a capital delta symbol (Δ)capital delta symbol
Insert a lowercase gamma symbol (γ)lowercase gamma symbol
Insert a lowercase pi symbol (π)lowercase pi symbol
Insert a plus or minus symbol (±)plus or minus symbol
Insert a sum symbol (∑)sum symbol
Insert a multiplication symbol (×)multiplication symbol
Insert an infinite symbol (∞)infinite symbol
Insert a slash (/)slash
Insert a backslash (\)backward slash
Insert an at sign (@)at sign
Insert a percentage character (%)percent
Insert a round opening bracketopen bracket
Insert a round closing bracketclose bracket
Insert an opening square bracket ([)open square bracket
Insert a closing square bracket (])close square bracket
Insert an opening angle bracket (<)open angle bracket
Insert a closing angle bracket (>)close angle bracket
Insert an underscore symbol (_)underscore
Insert an equal sign (=)equal
Insert an asterisk (*)asterisk
Selection and segment editingSelect the content of the entire segmentselect all
Select the word after the caretselect next word
Select the word before the caretselect previous word
Select the character after the caretselect next
Select the character before the caretselect previous
Remove the selection by using backspacebackspace
Remove the selection by using deletedelete
Clear (unselect) any selected characters or textclear selection
Remove the character before the caret (when no text is selected)backspace
Remove the character after the caret (when no text is selected)delete
NavigationMove the caret to the start of the segmentgo to the beginning
Move the caret to the end of the segmentgo to the end
Go to the next segmentgo to next segment
Return to the previous segmentgo to previous segment
Move the caret forwards by one charactermove forward
Move the caret backwards by one charactermove back
Scroll up the workspacescroll up
Scroll down the workspacescroll down
Select the Page up keypage up
Select the Page down keypage down
Select the Home keyhome
Select the End keyend
Copying and pastingCopy the currently selected contentcopy that
Paste the currently selected content to the clipboardpaste that
Cut the currently selected contentcut that
FormattingApply bold formattingapply bold
Apply italic formattingapply italic
Apply underline formattingapply underline
Apply strikethrough formattingapply strikethrough
Apply subscript formattingapply subscript
Apply superscript formattingapply superscript
Apply small caps formattingapply small caps
Show whitespace charactersshow whitespaces
Hide whitespace charactershide whitespaces
Remove all the tags from the current selectionclear formatting
Remove all the tags from the entire segmentclear all formatting
Undo and redoUndo the last actionundo that
Redo the last actionredo that
Segment actions and confirmationClear the content of the active target segmentclear target
Copy the source content to the active target segmentcopy source
Lock the active segmentlock segment
Unlock the active segmentunlock segment
Confirm the active segment and move to the next unconfirmed segmentconfirm
Confirm the active segment and move to the next segment, regardless of its statusconfirm and next
Confirm the active segment and do not move to the next segmentconfirm and stay
Add the active segment as a new translation unit into the translation memorynew translation unit
Set the status of the active segment to Sign-off Rejected. Only available to certain users.reject segment
Smart actionsOpen the smart actions menushow smart actions
Select the insert tags action in the smart actions menushow tags menu
Select the terminology action in the smart actions menushow terms menu
Select the fragment matches action in the smart actions menushow fragments menu
Select the placeables action in the smart actions menushow placeables menu
Select the TQA action in the smart actions menushow quality assessment menu
Select the comments action in the smart actions menushow comments menu
Panel interactionCollapse the side panelcollapse side panel
Expand the Verification panelexpand verification panel
Expand the Revisions panelexpand revisions panel
Expand the TQA panelexpand quality assessment panel
Expand the Filters panelexpand filters panel
Expand the Lookups panelexpand lookups panel
Expand the Comments panelexpand comments panel
Expand the Navigation panel with the Find tab selectedexpand find panel
Expand the Navigation panel with the Replace tab selectedexpand replace panel
Track ChangesEnable the Track Changes functionalityenable track changes
Disable the Track Changes functionalitydisable track changes
Revisions (only if the Revisions panel is expanded)Accept all the revisions in the current documentaccept all revisions
Reject all the revisions in the current documentreject all revisions
Move to the next revisionnext revision
Return to the previous revisionprevious revision
Accept the currently selected revisionaccept this
Reject the currently selected revisionreject this
Verification messages (only if the Verification panel is expanded)Move to the next verification messagenext message
Return to the previous verification messageprevious message
Ignore the active verification messageignore this
Comments (only if the Comments panel is expanded)Move to the next commentnext comment
Return to the previous commentprevious comment
Delete the currently selected commentdelete this
Edit the currently selected commentedit this

Special commands

CommandDescription
literalUse before another command to insert that command as text instead of executing it