Is there a lexicon for the new ipad verbal commands?

There are no verbal commands on the new iPad. It's simply a dictation feature. In other words, you talk and it takes what you said and prints it out on the screen.

But you do have to tell it to insert puncuation, for instance ("are you here question mark" to get "Are you here?"). I'm not aware of any list of such endmarks, or if you can use Dictation to say "All Caps" and get ALL CAPS. Perhaps you could experiment and let us know what you find out? :-)

This seems to be all Apple has on it - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5176

To me it seems no different than Dragon, VLingo or the other dictation capable apps that have been available for some time, so many of the same sorts of commands should work (like the punctuation commands PogoPossum mentioned.). It is better integrated into iOS though (with Dragon, I've always had to dictate, then copy and paste into the note/message/email or whatever I really wanted the info in).

BTW, just like all those other apps, the iPad Apple dictation feature offloads your voice data to their servers for processing, then sends the interpreted results back for display. True voice processing is just too much for any tiny little mobile processor to handle, plus apparantly, like Dragon and others, Apple builds up a database of words and phrases as well as dialect differences in pronunciation to enable the speech processor algorithms to bet ever better and getting your dictation correct. The paranoia/conspiracy posts have already started to appear about Apple storing your dictation for all sorts of bizarre uses and intentions, but that is the same stuff that came out when dragon first appeared. And there is no evidence that they are doing anything other than what they say - anonomously storing your dictaiton to build lexicons and dialect-specific databases to enhance the speech recongnition algorithms.

I have just been experimenting and so far have found the following:

• Say "all caps" then the next word will be capitalized, but you must say it before each new word.
• Say "new line" will shift to the next line without making a space (at least in notes)
• Say "new paragraph" and it will shift down two lines
• Say "quote" then say word(s) and the quotation marks will be inserted
• So far It appears that it recognizes most punctuation marks, "period", "question mark" and "excamation mark". Note if you only say exclamation, it will write the word exclamation. You have to say exclamation mark.

That's all I have found so far. Wold be interested if other people have found more commands, or tricks.

Have fun trying these ones out:

http://blog.crushapps.com/2011/10/more-fun-with-siri-dictation/

Funny thing though… I had to type this reply from my PC… The “reply” link on this page is not working on my iPad3’s Safari at this moment.

🙂

The dictation facility on iPad is not Siri.

You are right, dictation on iPad is not Siri, but a lot of those commands work (e.g. frowny face).

Hence I said " Have fun trying it out".

Perhaps, they share the same engine.