Harness the Power of Speech (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11, Dragon Medical 10, Olympus, Philips, digital dictation solutions)

Law firms have traditionally relied on expensive paralegals, legal secretaries, or outside services to transcribe the many documents required for legal proceedings — client memos, contracts, motions, briefs, discovery and deposition summaries, and more. Traditional transcription, however, presents significant drawbacks for law firms looking to succeed in today’s fast-paced and highly competitive legal market. With its tedious and time-consuming dictate-transcribe-review-edit cycle, this outdated approach to document creation takes a heavy toll on firm efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

Using a traditional transcription process, the lawyer typically dictates a document into a recorder and gives the tape to a secretary who listens to the recording and types its contents for multiple rounds of review and edits. Depending on the workloads of the lawyer and the secretary, this process can take up to the better part of a day.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional or Legal provides a better way, enabling law firms and corporate legal departments to achieve higher productivity and lower costs through a flexible, efficient transcription workflow.

Please read more in this PDF document, which outlines various Dragon transcription options in legal practices. Contact Speakeasy Solutions at:

• Within Vancouver & the Lower Mainland 604-264-9109
• Outside Vancouver & the Lower Mainland toll free 1-888-964-9109

to learn more or set up a demonstration.  We look forward to working with you, and sharing the benefits of an effective speech recognition solution.

What a busy couple of weeks this has been.  The Speakeasy Solutions website has been updated with information regarding the following important support information:

Dragon Speech Recognition Package Value Added

• Complimentary support for Dragon clients
• Complimentary quick Dragon how-to answers

Read more here.

Digital Voice Recorder Package Value Added (for Philips and Olympus  professional line of products)

• Complimentary support for package purchases (read more here)
• Digital Dictation Extended Support Package (read more here)
• Instant Replacement Insurance for your digital equipment (read more here)

Speakeasy Solutions provides clients with peace of mind and a life-line when they need it most.  Technology should work for you — not the other way around.

My clients never cease hearing my endless refrain of “the right tool for the right job” for I am fanatic about efficiency. Is Dragon faster, or is the scroll wheel on the mouse faster? These are questions that plague me constantly. The answer always is: “that depends”.

However, when working in Microsoft Outlook, and I find myself buried deep down in my inbox, I find it much faster to say “go to top” to reposition the cursor focus to the very top of my inbox in order to view the latest email.  Conversely, if I am at the top of my email, and realize I need to reply to something that is at the bottom of the list, I say “go to bottom” to reposition the cursor focus.

Bottom line: if I have to scroll more than twice with my scroll wheel, I have already wasted time where Dragon can perform the task infinitely faster.

Here are some of the highlights and a review of Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 11.  As always, there is what is the software manufacturer says, and then there is what a hard core user experiences.

I’ve been using Dragon since the version 2 days and every version does have its various improvements.  I am also a Value Added Reseller, whose mission statement is to provide clients with personal, professional, and honest service.  My existing clients know this quite well given the SeS Dragon NaturallySpeaking Training Workbook that I re-write with every version — from an actual user perspective and not “what should be”.

Do not misunderstand, I am passionate about Dragon, but I treat speech recognition like any other business tool — it must help me get more accomplished and faster.  Dragon, for a long time, has achieved this for me, and I truly enjoy sharing this knowledge with others.  Does version 11 fit the bill?  There are definitely some great advancements worth noting…

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Speakeasy Solutions is pleased to announce the release of Dragon Version 11! We’re excited to present the following enhancements:

• Multi-core support lending to V11′s much improved speed, response time and accuracy
• Astounding accuracy improvements with digital voice recorders
• New commands for more efficient editing
• Automatically transcribe digital voice recordings with Professional and Legal (dock your recorder and Dragon takes care of the transcription automatically — proofreading still required)
• Greatly improved User Interface
• Window switching by voice made incredibly easy
• Additional general computer use commands for features you may frequently use
• Full text control abilities & commands for Office 2010 & OpenOffice.org Writer
• Mousing by voice easier with new commands

More detailed information can be found here.

Please note the following important UPGRADE information:

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