Digital Dictation and Transcription Equipment

Going digital with your dictation is a smart move.  Transferring to digital with your dictation from the old style of using cassette tapes makes life much easier for your secretary and for yourself.  Whilst there is an initial outlay the long term benefits make this a wise investment.  Some of the key advantages are:

• Quality is superior and it saves times
• Dictate away from your desk
• Eliminates the need for individual tapes
• Can be voice activated thereby avoiding those long silences
• Faster and easier to transfer work to your secretary and add additional voice instructions
• The transcriptionist is able to manage different recordings much more easily
• Sound quality can be enhanced when transcribing
• You can record for much longer time spans
• You can work hands free
• Edit your voice file to add in further comments for those moments when you forgot to say something
• Much easier and quicker to send files to your secretary via the web

But which equipment to choose for your dictation?   Here is a little list:

• Personal handhold devices which you use with a USB to interact with your PC
• Dictate directly into your computer
• Pocket handheld PC or Smartphone
• Dictate into a telephone
• Dictate via the internet from anywhere in the world
• Desk microphone, good for conference meetings

Perhaps you are a writer that wants to record your thoughts whilst on location, a scientist recording notes at a conference or a surveyor wanting a record of your site visit, going digitial with your dictation enables you to have that option.  Making the transfer will enhance your workflow and of course you are able to transfer files easily to a firm like ourselves to be transcribed! 

If you need help on this subject or would like to talk to us about outsourcing your transcription work please contact us.