Apple Siri Command: Dictation Shortcuts

This Apple Siri guide will help you to understand the dictation shortcuts in Siri. As you know you can do incredible things with Siri using only the power of your voice. It can help you to stay connected, organize your life, and get things done.

At first you will need to follow the on-screen prompts to train Siri to recognize your voice. Try to speak as naturally as you can because this is the voice that your phone will be listening out for from now on. Siri uses natural language voice control to listen to what you say.

The iOS 9 allows your iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus to get always-on “Hey Siri”, meaning you can say “Hey Siri” anytime you want. Here’s some useful Apple Siri Command on dictation shortcuts you can use for your daily activities.

Apple Siri Command and Action

Command	Example	Action	Result
Cap	I love ‘cap’ bali	Capitalise the next word	I love Bali
New paragraph		Start a new paragraph
Caps on … caps off	‘caps on’ ten types of fruits ‘caps off’	Capitalise a section of text	10 Types of Fruits
All caps	I ‘all caps on’ love you	Make the next word all uppercase	I LOVE you
All caps on … all caps off	I ‘all caps on’ love you ‘all caps off’	Make part of what you say uppercase	I LOVE YOU
No caps	I like ‘no caps’ Capitals	Make the next word lowercase	I like capitals
No caps on … no caps off	We like the cities ‘no caps’ Bali and Sydney ‘no caps off’ the most	Make sure part of what you say is all lowercase	We like the cities bali and sydney the most
Dot	The number pi is three ‘dot’ one four	.	The number pi is 3.14
Point	The ‘point’ number pi is three ‘point’ one four	,	The point number pi 3.14
“Quote … end quote” or “quote … close quote”	She said ‘quote’ see you next week ‘end quote’	Place quotes around a section of text	She said “see you next week”
Dash	This dash is dash my dash cheese	–	This – is – my – cheese
Hyphen	This ‘hyphen’ is ‘hyphen’ my ‘hyphen’ cheese	–	This-is-my-cheese
E.g. (pronounced as “e g”)	‘e g’ when you learn to ride a bike	e.g.	E.G. when you learn to ride a bike
i.e. (pronounced as “i e”)	‘i e’ when you learn to ride a bike	i.e.	I.e. when you learn to ride a bike

Apple Siri Command on dictation shortcuts

Command	Action
Space bar	Prevent a hyphen from appearing in a normally hyphenated word
No space	Prevent a space between words
No space on … no space off	Prevent a section of text from having spaces between words
“Period” or “full stop”	Place a “.” at the end of a sentence
“Ellipsis” or “dot dot dot”	…
Comma	,
Double comma	,,
“Quote” or “quotation mark”	“
Apostrophe	‘
Exclamation point	!
Inverted exclamation point	¡
Question mark	?
Inverted question mark	¿
Ampersand	&
Asterisk	*
Open parenthesis	(
Close parenthesis	)
Open bracket	[
Close bracket	]
Open brace	{
Close brace	}
Em dash	—
Underscore	_
Percent sign	{d958518d66e2fab10bd687335e21309afc6bdf3ca299be580bfbd8faab207cd7}
Copyright sign	©
Registered sign	®
Section sign	§
Dollar sign	$
Cent sign	¢
Euro sign	€
Yen 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”	😉