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Google's Docs help page, in its December 2020 archived copy, says you add punctuation in voice typing by saying specific phrases, and lists them.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

In the source's own words

“You can use different phrases to add punctuation to your text.”

Type with your voice (Google Docs Editors Help), archived copy from December 2020, Google Docs Editors Help (archived by the University of North Texas Web Archive), 2020, Punctuation.

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What it measures
The archived page lists the phrases in a table. The phrases include period, comma, exclamation point, question mark, new line and new paragraph.
What it does not show
A 2020 snapshot. The phrase list is in English. We could not confirm the phrases on Google's current page, and Google does not say on this page which languages the punctuation phrases work in.

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