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The short answer: everyone! Now that would make for a very short, arrogant article, so let’s expand on that answer: lawyers, doctors, engineers, researchers, interior designers, architects, insurance agents & the list continues ad infinitum.
Dictation equipment helps you get more work done quicker, freeing up time and saving you money and making you more money at the same time. Quadruple win!
Who Uses Dictation Machines?
Dictation equipment has historically been in the domain of lawyers and medical professionals. However, with the refinement of transcription machines, the combined use of dictation and transcription equipment has exploded across diverse industries.
Lawyers record meetings, interviews, memos, letters, court notes, and an assistant manually transcribes it when their schedule permits. This process has changed to the professional using quality dictation machines with voice recognition and combining it with transcription equipment.
A professional will talk three times faster when the need to slow down for a personal assistant’s transcription capabilities is removed. In the legal profession, this could equate to a 66% saving, and clients will be billed faster. Cash flow is king, so getting your invoices out quicker is a vital need for any company.
In addition, the use of a voice recognition dictation recorder allows professionals to develop ideas on building sites, in manufacturing plants, in court cases, or wherever that creative moment happens. The text file can then be edited or be shared as-is.
New Dictation Equipment Versus Smart Phones
With the new touchscreen dictation equipment, capabilities such as email from Wi-Fi have been added, which increases your productivity opportunities.
Some professionals erroneously believe they can ‘get away with’ using smartphones and apps for their dictation. Unfortunately, time and again, this has proved to cost you more in time than it is worth. Here are some challenges you will face:
- Smartphone batteries die quickly with dictation.
- The controls are clumsy, and corrections are difficult on a phone.
- Phone audio, from their pinhead-sized microphones, is compressed and produces very inferior audio files and, hence, poor transcriptions. Quality is reduced by at least 50%.
- Phone microphones have a smaller range. This means audio files will be fuzzy.
- Audio files are large, and smartphone storage, however large, is limited. Running out of space during a critical interview is more than frustrating.
- Dictation equipment can categorise, edit, and prioritise so you save time if routing audio files to assistants or colleagues.
- Smartphones have poor security, as we constantly see on news reports. Dictation equipment has 256-bit encryption, so the recordings are encrypted.
No matter what industry or walk of life, dictation equipment will increase your productivity, save you time and free you up for making money or a better quality of life.
Get smart with your time and audio files, order your Olympus DS9500 digital voice dictation equipment and transcription equipment in Sydney today! Contact Dictation World with any questions; our team will be delighted to help.