Here is what the VoiceboxMD mobile app implements in Voice Commands for notepad dictation (when Settings → Voice Commands is on).
This is separate from your custom Phrases (Settings → Phrases).
Layout / editing actions
These drive editor behavior (new line, delete word chunk), not a single character:
| Say | Effect |
| new paragraph | Inserts a blank line (new paragraph). |
| new line | Inserts one line break. |
| newline | Same as new line. |
| backspace | Deletes the previous “word” (word-boundary backspace in the editor). |
Punctuation and symbols
| Say | Inserts |
| period | . |
| full stop | . |
| comma | , |
| semicolon | ; |
| colon | : (see note below) |
| question mark | ? |
| exclamation mark | ! |
| exclamation point | ! |
| hyphen | – |
| dash | – (en dash) |
| slash | / |
| and slash | / |
| percent or percentage | % |
| plus | + |
| minus | – |
| equals or equal sign | = |
| ampersand | & |
| asterisk | * |
| hash | # |
| number sign | # |
| pound sign | # |
| at sign | @ |
| underscore | _ |
| times | × |
| plus minus or plus or minus | ± |
Note on “colon”: The app tries not to turn the word colon into : when it looks like part of a medical word (e.g. colonoscopy). Plain “colon” for punctuation still uses a guarded rule in code.
Quotes and brackets
| Say | Inserts |
| open quotation / open quote | “ |
| close quotation / close quote | “ |
| open parenthesis / open bracket | ( |
| close parenthesis / close bracket | ) |
| open square bracket | [ |
| close square bracket | ] |
Units and degrees
| Say | Inserts |
| degree | ° |
| degrees | ° |
| celsius | °C |
| fahrenheit | °F |
| degree celsius / degrees celsius | °C |
| degree fahrenheit / degrees fahrenheit | °F |
| micro / mu | μ |
Capitalization
| Say | Effect |
| caps lock <word> | Replaces the phrase with that next word in ALL CAPS (e.g. “caps lock mri” → MRI). |
What this list does not include
- Medical Scribe / Doctor–Patient live captions do not include these speech commands, this only applies to notepad editor sense.
- Phrases under Settings are your “when I say → print” rules, unlimited by this list.
- The keyword star appears in internal keyword cleanup but there is no star → * replacement rule; use asterisk for *.
- If Voice Commands is turned off in Settings, none of the above runs (raw text stays as transcribed).