Fact · Languages and accents
Apple's Japanese Mac command table maps the spoken word カンマ (comma) to a half-width comma (,) and the spoken word ピリオド to a half-width period (.).
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“カンマ , ダッシュ – 省略記号 … 感嘆符 ! ハイフン - ピリオド/点/ドット/フルストップ . 疑問符 ?”
Macでテキストの音声入力に使えるコマンド, Apple Inc. (Macユーザガイド, Japanese), 2026, 句読点 table (Japanese).
Open the original- What it measures
- The Japanese table uses the same marks as the English table, with Japanese words for each.
- What it does not show
- The table does not list 読点 (、) or 句点 (。), so a Japanese writer who wants the ideographic marks must check the output or type them.