Fact · Dictation in your apps
A 2023 Chrome Unboxed guide to Chromebook Dictation says that, besides words, you can speak punctuation to Dictation.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Aside from simply speaking words and punctuation, what else can you tell Dictation to do for you?”
How to use your Chromebook's dictation tool to save yourself hours of typing, Michael Perrigo, Chrome Unboxed, 2023, Introduction, sections on spoken commands.
Open the original- What it measures
- The article's section on helpful Dictation phrases starts with this question. It treats speaking punctuation as a normal part of dictating, next to speaking words.
- What it does not show
- The article does not list the punctuation words it means, so it does not tell you which marks you can say or how each one is written. We could not confirm that list on Google's own help page on the day we checked.