Are You A Dictator? Then Philips’ New Integration with Nuance Dragon’s AI Speech Recognition May Be for You

From LawSites:

I am not a dictator (although some in my family may at times disagree). But I know that, for many lawyers and legal professionals, dictation is the only way to go. If you are one of them, you may want to check out the integration announced today by Philips Dictation of Nuance Dragon’s AI-powered speech recognition into the Philips SpeechLive dictation platform.

Philips SpeechLive, owned by the company Speech Processing Solutions, is a browser- and mobile-based dictation and transcription product for converting speech to text. The product, which also includes tools for routing and managing transcriptions, is used by a number of law firms.

With today’s announcement, SpeechLive now integrates Nuance Dragon, which has been a long-time leader in dictation software for the legal profession. The integration brings enhanced AI-driven speech recognition with software that continuously learns and becomes more accurate with use.

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Among the features enabled through this integration:

• Specialized legal vocabularies. User can access tailored legal vocabularies for greater precision in transcription.
• Custom profiles. Speech profiles can be personalized for to enhance efficiency and reduce repetitive corrections.
• Personalized user recognition that uses adaptive learning to optimize transcription accuracy, tailored to individual preferences.
• Real-time speech recognition. Integration of the Dragon Bar enables users to dictate directly into applications, such as Word documents or client management systems.

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PG was an early adopter of Dragon’s early dictation system a very long time ago. It didn’t work very well.

However, in his law office, he dictated most of the documents that he couldn’t create with his home-brew document assembly system. His secretaries were very talented at cleaning up some of the documents he had dictated badly.

He also dictated requests to call the court clerk’s office to find out the status of court filings, etc., etc., etc. He hired the smartest secretaries he could find and paid them significantly more than the local going rate so they would stay around a long time. When a big check would arrive, he often paid his secretaries part of the windfall. Hiring and keeping smart people paid off very nicely for him.

PG remembers reading that a successful author dictated the first drafts of his novel for transcription a long time ago. He doesn’t recall who it was, but perhaps the name will float into his mind from the cloud or some similar source.