Dictation on the New iPad - with the Wireless Keyboard

This is one of those days that has been extremely busy - finishing up the summer semester, posting grades, and getting ready for fall semester.  I am working diligently to use some of the new productivity tools that I discovered, such as, dictation on the New iPad.

Since my text messages often contain more graphical characters than words (using the Emoji keyboard found in Settings > General > International Keyboards > Emoji), I wanted to use both the Bluetooth wireless keyboard and dictation.

Yes, the feature was under my eyes the entire time.  All that I had to do was to click on the top-right key of the wireless keyboard to get the iPad keyboard to show up - and then click on the microphone to dictate!  So easy to do!!

Dictation shortcuts:

• "Period". The "." is the standard way to end a sentence. It includes a space after the period, so you are ready for your next sentence
• "Question Mark". The "?" also includes a trailing space
• "New Paragraph". This keyword phrase starts a new paragraph. Remember to end the previous sentence before beginning the new paragraph
• "Exclamation Point". The "!" includes a trailing space
• "Comma". The "," includes a trailing space
• "Colon". The ";" includes a trailing space
• "Semi-Colon". The ":" includes a trailing space
• "Elipsis". The "..." includes a trailing space
• "Quote" and "Unquote". The " produced by saying "quote" does not produce a trailing space. The " produced by saying "unquote" does include a trailing space
• "Slash". The "/" symbol
• "Asterisk". The "*" symbol
• "Ampersand". The "&" symbol
• "At Sign". The "@" symbol

Source: http://ipad.about.com/od/ipad_tips/ss/How-To-Use-Ipad-Voice-Dictation.htm