Letters and Numerals in Spelling Mode

These are the names of letters and numerals that you can say in Spelling mode.

Letters

Letters are lowercase by default. To capitalize a letter:

To type a letter in Spelling mode:

When saying a plain letter name (as opposed to a diacritical letter, discussed below), you may precede the name of the letter by Letter, e.g. Letter A, Letter B, Letter Alpha, Letter Bravo. This can help disambiguate.

To repeat a letter (that is, to say a letter that appears twice in succession):

Here are the International Radio Alphabet letter names:

What You Say
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Whiskey
Xray
Yankee
Zulu

Diacritical Letters

A diacritical letter is a letter with a marking above or below it. To type a diacritical letter in Spelling mode:

Not every diacritical is possible, even for every European language. You cannot, for example, say the fourth letter of “Dvořák”. (The best way to type Dvořák’s name with Dragon Dictate would be through a custom text macro command; see the User Manual for more about that.)

Letter Diacriticals
A Acute, Circumflex, Grave, Tilde, Umlaut
Dieresis, Ring
C Cedilla
E Acute, Circumflex, Grave, Umlaut
Dieresis
I Acute, Circumflex, Grave, Umlaut
Dieresis
N Tilde
O Acute, Circumflex, Grave, Tilde, Umlaut
Dieresis, Ring
U Acute, Circumflex, Grave, Umlaut
Dieresis
Y Acute, Umlaut
Dieresis

Ligatures and Non-Latin Letters

You can say the following ligatures and non-Latin letters in Spelling mode:

What You Say Result
A E Diphthong
A E Ligature
Ligature A E
æ
O Slash ø
O E Diphthong
O E Ligature
Ligature O E
œ
Eszet
Sharp S
German Sharp
German Sharp S
ß
S Wedge š
Icelandic Eth ð
Icelandic Thorn þ

Numerals

Numerals are individual digits. To type a digit in Spelling mode:

Some numeric symbols are discussed as punctuation.