Fact · Dictation on Windows
In English, Microsoft's voice typing symbol table gives the spoken names backquote or backtick for the backtick character, and pipe character for the vertical bar.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“backquote, backtick { left/open (curly) brace | vertical bar sign/character, pipe character”
Use voice typing to talk instead of type on your PC, Microsoft, 2026, Punctuation and symbols table, English.
Open the original- What it measures
- The table lists the symbols you can dictate in English and the phrase to say for each. It is the same table that gives question mark and at sign.
- What it does not show
- The table covers English only. Microsoft does not say whether a symbol is typed correctly inside a terminal or a code editor, so test the symbols in the app you use.