Dictated heading and punctuation

This article describes the concept of dictated punctuation and styling, and the different phrases that are automatically interpreted by Claudio.

When professional clients dictate for the purpose of getting an audio transcribed into a letter or a report, they might dictate the punctuation and how they want the document laid out. 

As an example, they might say "period" or "full stop", every time they want the symbol "." (period) inserted. 

They might say "new line" or "new paragraph" when they want the sentence to end and a new paragraph to start. They might say "Heading" or "Sub-Heading" followed by a word or phrase that they want styled as a Heading or Sub-Heading for their specific template.

Claudio automatically detects these words and phrases in the dictation and replaces it with the correct symbols and styling as needed

The list below are the defaults supported by Claudio.  The Profile configuration allows for the addition for other phrases as needed.

Symbol

Dictations

New line

new line, next line, new paragraph, paragraph, end paragraph, next paragraph, skip a line, stop at paragraph

Heading/

subheading

heading, next heading, section, next section, subheading, next subheading

double quotation mark, inverted commas, double quote, double quote mark, quotation mark, quote, open quote, close quote, unquote

single quote, single quotation mark, inverted comma

.

stop, full stop, period

,

comma

!

exclamation mark, exclamation point

#

number sign, number symbol, pound sign, octothorpe, hashtag

&

ampersand, and sign, and symbol

(, )

bracket, brackets, parenthesis, paren, parentheses

[, ]

square bracket, square brackets, square brace

{, }

curly bracket, curly brackets, curly brace

*

asterisk

-

hyphen, dash

ellipses, dot dot dot

/

slash, forward slash

\

back slash

:

colon

;

semicolon

_

underscore

List of supported Headings and Subheadings

CLAIMANT DETAILS
SUMMARY OF INSTRUCTIONS
METHODOLOGY
DOCUMENTATION REVIEWED
HISTORY
CLINICAL EXAMINATION
INVESTIGATIONS
OPINION
OVERVIEW
CONCLUSION

We would recommend sharing this list with the doctors, lawyers and insurance professionals that send in their dictation.