Speech recognition can be used to create a verbatim transcript of the audio; however, punctuation is essential for coherent documentation. Setting the spokenPunctuation parameter to true in /transcribe configuration enables users to control when punctuation is inserted in the document output instead of text.
The table below lists punctuation that can be inserted in documentation in place of text.Note that some punctuation may be supported by more than one utterance. For example, both “open parentheses” and “open paren” will return (.

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Spoken punctuation support

Period.
Comma,
New line\n
New paragraph\n\n
Percent%
Exclamation mark!
Question mark?
Colon:
Semicolon;
Hyphen-
Slash/
Open/close quotes" "
Open/close parentheses( )
Use of spoken punctuation is optional for dictation configuration. It should be enabled for users that expect to see the punctuation inserted when verbalized as part of dictation.Please contact us for more information on or help with punctuation.