Dictated Heading and Punctuation

In formal dictation—particularly in legal and medical transcription—speakers sometimes verbally indicate formatting and punctuation. For example, a speaker might say "New paragraph," "Period," "Comma," "Open quote," or "Close quote" to direct how the transcript should be formatted.

When this option is enabled, Claudio recognizes these spoken formatting cues and applies them to your transcript. When disabled, these verbal instructions are treated as regular speech and included in the text.

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.

Dictated Heading and Punctuation

Enable or disable dictated headings and punctuation