Voice command reference

Speak these phrases while dictating to insert punctuation or edit text. They run only when no post-STT AI rewrite ran for that dictation — when Improve with AI or Read surroundings triggers a successful AI call, the model handles phrasing and these spoken commands are skipped. Toggle the feature in Dictation → While dictating → Voice commands (on by default). See Hotkeys and voice and AI polish.

Commands

Say	Result
period or full stop	.
comma	,
question mark	?
exclamation mark or exclamation point	!
colon	:
semicolon	;
dash or hyphen	-
new line	Line break
new paragraph	Paragraph break
tab	Tab character
undo	Undo the last input (system undo)
delete that	Delete the last dictated chunk
scratch that	Delete back through the last sentence of the previous injection

Polish off only

If the active mode has Improve with AI on (or still makes an AI call for Read surroundings), do not expect these phrases to become punctuation — turn Improve and surroundings off for literal voice commands.

Not the same as voice actions

Commands reshape text you are typing. new line inserts a line break in the transcript. press enter (a voice action suffix, off by default) types the rest then sends Return to the focused app. Prefixes like new note skip typing entirely.