Programming Siri shortcuts

[clehrich]

I apologize if this has been answered somewhere, but I'm overwhelmed by the traffic on Siri.

I want to program dictation to include voice shortcuts. How do I do this?

For example, let's suppose you want to spell a word rather than say it, perhaps because it isn't English. Now to do this, you can say:

No caps on ; do not capitalize anything until I say otherwise
No space on ; do not insert spaces between units until told otherwise

Then you say,

W I S S E N S C H A F T

Then,

No caps off
No space off

When it calculates what you've said, you should get

wissenschaft

OK.

So I want to teach Siri that if I say "spellit," fast, all one command, she should do the first set of commands, and if I say "unspell" she should do the second. That way I say,

In the German understanding a spellit WISSENSCHAFT unspell is...

And I get it the way I want it.

I've tinkered with shortcuts through the Keyboard menu, but they don't seem to get picked up in dictation.

Anyone know if there is a way to do this? Seems pretty simple, really, but maybe this functionality isn't in Siri yet. Should be.