Transcription Software – Its Uses and Benefits

Transcription software has many benefits and uses in various medical and legal practices.
It can also be very useful in running a small business or small office for the dictation of memos, letters emails files etc.

One of the most common and popular voice to speech software programs is Dragon Naturally Speaking. This is a relatively cheap product to purchase and can be picked up Amazon for $45.00. The however this will depend very much on which version you need and some of the more expensive software packages for medical and legal uses can be much more expensive.

Many medical practices will use transcription software for tasks such as Medicare billing, practice management, patient record keeping, keeping electronic medical records, medical scheduling, dental and other digital dictation task. See transcription software too.

Legal offices also find great use for transcription software because of the efficiency and increased productivity which results from the ability to dictate by microphone various records, notes and so on.

Some of the leading suppliers of transcription software include Olympus, Altapoint, DME software, Lytec, HER software, EMR among others.

The benefit of transcription software is based on the fact that one can speak up to three times faster than one can type. For this reason the busy lawyer doctor or ordinary citizen can increase their productivity greatly by the ability to speak into a microphone and have their words transcribed into text.

To do this you will simply need the transcription software package, microphone and a PC.

Dragon naturally speaking

Dragon naturally speaking have an extensive range of products including dragon naturally speaking standard, dragon naturally speaking preferred, dragon naturally speaking professional, and Dragon naturally speaking legal and dragon naturally speaking medical.

Dragon naturally speaking standard can be installed quickly and requires no special script reading. There are onscreen tutorials and help and is available in many languages. It costs $99.00.

Dragon naturally speaking professional has many other features including the use of the product with Bluetooth headsets and can provide voice shortcuts for internet web search and desktop search.

Dragon naturally speaking medical and dragon naturally speaking legal are obviously aimed at the medical and legal markets but for the ordinary person the standard version is more than adequate and can increase exponentially your productivity if you are for example writing a lot of articles, schoolwork, internet marketing and so on.

Another major player in the transcription software market is NCH software which has the Express Scribe transcription payback software. Express scribe is free to download from the NCH web site and a typist can install it on her computer and control her playback with the use of a transcription foot pedal keyboard. However this product is not a voice recognition product. Rather it is a product which allows the typist to use it to transfer audio to text whilst controlling playback with the transcription foot pedal.