July 2025 - North Texas Radio

Talk, talk, talk, it’s only talk
Comments, clichés, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It’s only talk, cheap talk
— Adrian Belew

King Crimson
Elephant Talk (1981)

Posted on YouTube by
Bill Bruford

Spoken Command	Output
period, dot	.
comma	,
question mark	?
exclamation point	!
new line	Moves to a new line
new paragraph	Creates a new paragraph
open quote	“
close quote	“
colon	:
semicolon	;
align center	Centers the current paragraph
indent	Indents the current paragraph
decrease indent	Reduces indentation of the current paragraph
dollar sign	$
start spelling	Begins spelling mode for dictating symbols or letters
stop listening	Stops dictation
start listening	Starts dictation
press alpha	Presses the ‘A’ key (using ICAO/NATO phonetic alphabet)
bold	Toggles bold formatting
save document	Saves the document

The table shows the basic dictation commands. Using a mic hooked up to or on your computer is pure gold. Getting off the keyboard when you can saves an incredible amount of time.

It’s pretty simple, might take a few days to get it all down and get used to it but you gotta keep it up. I tend to fall off.

Spoken Command	Output
Period or Full stop	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point or Exclamation mark	!
Apostrophe	‘
Open quote / Close quote	” “
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
Open parenthesis / Close parenthesis	( )
Dash	–
Ellipsis	…
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Caps on	Capitalizes first letter of each word
Caps off	Stops capitalization
All caps	Next word in ALL CAPS
No space	Removes space between words
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Delete last word	Deletes the last word
Undo	Reverts last action
Redo	Reapplies undone action
Heart emoji	❤️
Smiley face	🙂
Car emoji	🚗
Stop dictation	Stops dictation

Spoken Command	Output
Period or Full stop	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point or Exclamation mark	!
Apostrophe	‘
Open quote / Close quote	” “
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
Open parenthesis / Close parenthesis	( )
Dash	–
Ellipsis	…
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Caps on	Capitalizes first letter of each word
Caps off	Stops capitalization
All caps	Next word in ALL CAPS
No space	Removes space between words
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Delete last word	Deletes the last word
Undo	Reverts last action
Redo	Reapplies undone action
Heart emoji	❤️
Smiley face	🙂
Car emoji	🚗
Stop dictation	Stops dictation

Spoken Command	Output
Period	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point	!
Apostrophe	‘
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Delete last word	Deletes the last word
Undo	Reverts last action
Press [key]	Simulates key press
Open [app name]	Opens specified app
Pause voice typing	Pauses dictation
Stop dictation	Stops dictation

Spoken Command	Output
Period	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point	!
Apostrophe	‘
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Open [app name]	Opens specified app
Go back	Goes back
Scroll down	Scrolls page down
Scroll up	Scrolls page up
Delete	Deletes last word or selected text

Spoken Command	Output
Period	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point	!
Apostrophe	‘
Open quote / Close quote	” “
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
Open parenthesis / Close parenthesis	( )
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Bold	Applies bold to next text
Italics	Applies italics to next text
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Undo	Reverts last action
Heart emoji	❤️
Smiley face	🙂
Car emoji	🚗

Spoken Command	Output
Period	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point	!
Apostrophe	‘
Open quote / Close quote	” “
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
Open parenthesis / Close parenthesis	( )
New line	Inserts line break in a cell (Alt+Enter equivalent)
New cell	Moves to the next cell (Tab or Enter equivalent)
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase in cell
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Undo	Reverts last action
Heart emoji	❤️
Smiley face	🙂
Car emoji	🚗

Mac – Commands for Dictating Text
Dictate Text on iPhone
Microsoft – Voice Typing
Dictate in Microsoft 365
Voice to Text on Android
Dictation – as assistive tech

I used Grok to compile the tables and set them up as .csv files, exported them to Excel, and then pasted them in the WordPress tables.

They’re all pretty similar to each other with a couple of extra commands in Excel and Word. I needed to learn how to set up tables in WordPress, so there you go.

— David

The Beatles
Get Back (January 30, 1969)

Posted on YouTube by
jose navea

Under Construction – I’ve been having issues with a few things on the site. Add-ons were conflicting with each other and I need to move away from proprietary page builders that lock you in. Their support is generally substandard.

I’ll name and blame – Elementor – For any ticket you send in they want your login info or it won’t be submitted, I had a question over the file system and in the ticket I explained that I had a backup on my computer that I was working with so I didn’t need anything done on the site. Just an answer to my question.

Their response was that they were unable to log in and asked for my info again (I put fake login info in the ticket). I’m reluctant to let anyone poke around to begin with and this was back when I was working on syncing with eBay and had customers names and addresses, I’m not giving that out.

As far as locking you in, to rebuild your site it’s a huge pain in the ass. It uses its own proprietary markup and database entries which can break the site and leave content and metadata after uninstalling. I nuked the site and am doing a fresh install.

I’m currently using the basic WordPress with Gutenberg blocks and it uses HTML markup, and can be moved to other platforms without a hitch. It can be easily converted to basic markup, plain text, rich text and so on.

— David

ETA – The Now Playing and Previously Played Archives are a priority.

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