Punctuation

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Snaply gives dictation two input styles:

• Automatic for natural speech
• Explicit when you want to say punctuation and structure out loud

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Choose A Mode

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Automatic Punctuation

• Best for normal prose, messages, and most email dictation
• Works well across English and Multi-language dictation
• Handles capitalization and punctuation for you
• Can format longer email-style dictation when Snaply detects an email

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Explicit Punctuation

• Best for exact line breaks, lists, symbols, and manual formatting
• Lets you speak commands like comma, new line, or open parenthesis
• Does not apply automatic email polishing
• Works best in English

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Change The Setting

Go to Settings -> Dictation -> Punctuation behaviour and choose Automatic or Explicit.

Common explicit commands

Spoken command	Result
period, full stop, dot	.
comma	,
question mark	?
exclamation mark	!
colon	:
semicolon	;
new line	line break
new paragraph	paragraph break
new bullet point	bullet item
new numbered list item	numbered item
open parenthesis / close parenthesis	( / )
open bracket / close bracket	[ / ]
double quote	"
single quote	'
slash	/
back slash	\
at sign	@
ampersand	&
underscore	_

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Practical Advice

• Use Automatic unless you need very deliberate structure.
• Use Explicit for lists, symbols, or formatting-heavy dictation.
• Brief pauses help Automatic mode place sentence boundaries cleanly.

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Related Pages

• Back to Dictation overview
• Choose your dictation language
• Create snippets for repeated structures