Reinstalling Digital Dictation & Transcription Software

SeS Icon Digital Dictation Transcription Installation You may be receiving a new PC, an additional PC or your existing PC may be wiped and reinstalled.

Regardless of the situation, you wish your computer environment to function just as it once did; but it seldom does, leading to lost productivity (and consequently time and money).

Although, with some planning (either by yourself and/or your IT staff), these losses will be minimized and perhaps even eliminated. Speakeasy Solutions has noticed that the one solution that is often overlooked is the digital dictation & transcription solution.

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Null Commands (Empty Dragon Commands That Do Nothing)

SeS Icon Dragon Tip for commands Further to a previous post where I discuss contending with the inadvertent triggering of a voice command, there seems to be an increase in this dilemma of late.

As a result, Speakeasy Solutions has created a Null Dragon Command (empty command) for a number of the most common accidental triggers in MS Outlook & MS Word, including:

  • File
  • Paste
  • Print
  • Send
  • Paragraph
  • New
  • Find
  • Review

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Creating a Desktop Icon to Launch a Specific Dragon User Profile & Vocabulary

SeS Icon Dragon Tip If you have multiple Dragon user profiles and/or multiple vocabularies within those user profiles, you may benefit from creating a desktop icon to launch a specific user profile and vocabulary with one click. Physicians, in particular, generally use at least two, often three, different vocabularies (i.e. their specialty for consults, general medical for medical-legals, non-medical for email and general correspondence). Once within a user profile, switching to another vocabulary is very simple, however, starting the day with your profile and vocabulary of need by way of one mouse click is efficient.

This method can be utilized for Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical Practice Edition.

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Announcing Philips’ SpeechControl for Mac (use with Dragon Dictate 2.5)

Philips SpeechControl 4 Mac At last! The Philips SpeechControl application, used primarily with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical Practice Edition on the PC, is now available for Mac users. What exactly does this exciting news mean?

The SpeechMike III, the preferred handheld microphone for speech recognition, can now be used on a Mac OS along side Dragon Dictate 2.5.

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Dragon Commands for Google Chrome

Dragon Google Chrome Please find following a set of voice commands created by Speakeasy Solutions Inc. for Google Chrome, to be used in conjunction with Dragon NaturallySpeaking & Dragon Medical Practice Edition.

These commands are designed for a more hands-free experience with Google Chrome as well as to improve efficiencies.

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Announcing the Dragon Recorder for iOS Devices

Dragon Recorder Last week Nuance announced the release of the App, Dragon Recorder, for iDevices, essentially creating audio files for transcription by Dragon. The big question on everyone’s mind is “does it work?”, followed by “is it worth using?”. The quick answers are: yes it does, and maybe.

Is it time to get rid of your digital voice recorder? Absolutely not.

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Announcing Philips SpeechExec Pro 7.1

Philips SpeechExec Enterprise 4.0 Speakeasy Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce a point release of Philips’ SpeechExec Pro 7 software.

Please read below for information for existing users of 7 as well as information for those using versions prior to 7.

Highlights Include

  • Automatic offline speech recognition on the transcriptionist side when dictation arrives
  • Asynchronous playback: Transcriptionists can continue playback while they are correcting
  • Use Digital Pocket Memo keywords for file routing to speech recognition
  • Select files for speech recognition queue at the download from the Digital Pocket Memo
  • Adaptation of author profiles in SpeechExec Transcribe when using Dragon roaming profiles
  • Adaptation (acoustic and language model) can now be scheduled
  • Supports templates for digital dictations in different formats
  • Enhanced security by encrypting documents for encrypted dictations

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