Fact · Dictation on Mac
Apple's Pages guide says that when the microphone appears you begin speaking, that you add punctuation by speaking its name, and that you click Done below the microphone when you are finished.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“When the microphone appears, begin speaking. To add punctuation, speak its name ... Click Done below the microphone when you”
Use dictation to enter text in Pages on Mac, Apple, Apple Support, Pages User Guide for Mac, n.d., Use dictation to enter text in Pages on Mac, steps 3 and 4.
Open the original- What it measures
- Apple's instructions for dictating inside Pages on a Mac. The guide gives comma and apostrophe as examples of punctuation names.
- What it does not show
- The page gives comma and apostrophe only as examples. The full list of spoken commands is on Apple's separate commands page, and a command list can differ by language.