Fact · Languages and accents
Apple's German Mac table maps the spoken words 'Doppelpunkt', 'Komma' and 'Punkt' to the colon (:), the comma (,) and the full stop (.).
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Doppelpunkt : Komma , ... Bindestrich - Punkt .”
Befehle zum Diktieren von Text auf dem Mac, Apple Inc. (Mac-Hilfe, German), 2026, Typografie table (German).
Open the original- What it measures
- The German table lists each typographic symbol beside the spoken command for it, in one list that also includes the question mark and the quotation marks.
- What it does not show
- The table gives the words and the marks only. It does not say how often each word is recognized in practice.