A blog post by The Droid Lawyer lists most of the known Android speech to text punctuation. He takes his cue from Dragon Dictation, an app from the firm that (all-but-confirmed-ly) powers Apple's voice recognition tools.Īndroid: Android's voice recognition is not quite as robust with its punctuation powers. IPhone/iPad: Jim Rhoades, developer and proprietor of the Crush Apps blog, totally covered the heck out of every punctuation you can say to Siri/dictation. Which is too bad, because iPhones and Androids can usually handle whatever you throw at them, presuming you say the right thing. One thing that often breaks up my casual, easier-to-translate flow is thinking about punctuation. Or you can manually enter all the oddities you want with Settings > Language & Keyboard > Personal Dictionary > "+" button. Finish the word, tap that word, tap it again (when prompted with "Tap again to save," then confirm your weird word. The weird word you're typing will appear just above the keyboard as one of the auto-complete options, even though your phone doesn't know it. If you want to manually teach your phone a word, you dig into Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts, then add the word as a "shortcut".Īndroid devices: For most keyboards and phones: Type the word into any app that takes text. IPhones/iPads: If you type out a word a few times, and refuse the autocorrect offering each time, your Apple device will eventually learn that word or phrase. And it works for voice recognition typing, too. But I taught my phone my weird words, and you can do likewise. My phone, when I first booted it up, had no idea about these things. The airport is in Cheektowaga, the 290 (yes, we say "the " around here) takes you up to Tonawanda, and the suburbs are mostly The Northtowns and The Southtowns. There are a lot of weird towns and roads and things around my home base of Buffalo, NY.