Equipment for Digital Dictation and Voice Recognition and also Equipment and Services relating to Scanning
This page looks at companies providing hardware and software for digital dictation and voice recognition
and also equipment and services relating to the scanning of documents.
See also
Transcription page for services relating to transcription rather than the equipment needed.
Same day despatch with most models. Credit terms for Law Firms and Barristers Chambers.
Leaders in the field of outsourced typing and transcription services - call 0870 446 1001.
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Accuro are
digital dictation experts who specialise in
legal transcription outsourcing.
'The typing is of an extremely high standard and all of the staff are approachable, helpful
and extremely efficient... my only wish is that we had installed Accuro several years ago'.
Partner, MSB Solicitors.
Accuro are digital dictation experts specialising
in legal transcription outsourcing. Accuro's policy to only work with the best UK based legal
secretaries ensures the highest standards of legal transcription. Accuro is already fully
integrated with all the leading digital dictation systems, ensuring the security of your data
is never compromised by outsourcing. They offer a free no obligation trial.
Accuro is also an authorised supplier of the Olympus Pro-Line range of digital dictation systems.
They can provide expert advice on which dictation equipment best suits a firm's budget and requirement,
help with installation and training, and provide after sales support.
Apple Transcription offers FREE-on-loan
Olympus equipment (for a limited period) along with start up help and advice to clients to ensure an easy transition to digital dictation.
Members of the Tape Transcription Panel, our UK-based team provides fast, accurate, secure and cost-effective
transcription to law firms, barristers chambers and government agencies.
Aprobrium are developers and suppliers of Lexacom Talk & Type™,
a powerful yet user friendly Digital Dictation and Workflow Management Software suite with all the same
functionality expected of high quality digital dictation software but realistically priced at a one off
cost of less than £200 per licence and generally without the need for expensive database management or
extensive hardware upgrades. Already a much acclaimed and widely used dictation solution in both small
and large NHS surgeries and hospital clinics throughout the UK where its stability and ease of use is
well known, Lexacom Talk & Type™, as a result of increasing demand, has now been further tailored to
suit both legal and commercial applications by offering Lexacom Audit™, a powerful highly configurable
reporting module. The Lexacom suite also includes ‘stand-alone’ Talk or Type, Lexacom Mobile™ for pda’s,
and Lexacom Scribe – a state of the art voice recognition option to give even greater flexibility to workflow management.
Lexacom Talk & Type™ is available as a 30 day risk free trial and, if required, is supplied together
with an easy to follow self install guide and free telephone support. Highly configurable, it will
seamlessly accommodate the needs of small office networks or multi-site organisations with ease
providing a non-disruptive discrete transition from labour intensive tape based dictation systems.
BigHand is a Microsoft Gold Partner & BlackBerry ISV Partner
based out of Chicago, London, Sydney and Toronto. BigHand is the leading digital dictation vendor in the
global professional services sector, maintaining the five largest sites at international law firms and
with more legal installations in total than all other suppliers combined. BigHand3 was awarded "Best of
Breed System of the Year" at the Legal Technology Awards for 2008, and nominated as ‘New Product of the Year’
at the LTN Awards 2008. BigHand was named as the fastest growing legal software developer in The Sunday Times
Microsoft Tech Track 100 league tables for both 2006 and 2005.
Click2Scan Ltd is a specialist document scanning company
which operates across the UK providing services and solutions for business's, organizations or individuals
who need to capture large amounts of paper documents to convert them to a digital format like pdf.
They provide:
* Document Scanning - full Scanning Bureau service with UK collections
* Document Management - Archive, Retrieval & Management Software
* OCR & Recognition - Intelligent capture of forms and documents
* Scanner Hire - Flexible document scanner hire
* Scanner Store - Buy scanners, software and consumables online
* Photo Scanning - Full consumer service for scanning old photos
One service is particularly useful for lawyers - re-creating contracts or other documents
from scanned or hard copies. They provide a range of services and solutions for OCR (optical character recognition)
including the fast re-typing of contracts and other paperwork from scanned copies, using their
team of professionals in India. Whether you need software or a service, Click2Scan can help you.
Crescendo Systems are Canadian and US market leaders in the supply
and development of digital dictation and transcription solutions across
the medical, legal and law enforcement areas, with over 200,000 users of
their dictation and transcription software world wide. Their product,
called DigiScribe, is a full network and IP based dictation
workflow solution, offering dictation via any form of mobile recording
device, pocket PC or telephone and allowing authors to dictate from any location
at any time. They currently have over 50 UK law firms already using their software.
DictaNet Software AG was founded in 1997 by the lawyer
Dr. Peter Becker with the goal of making traditional dictation processing simpler and more effective.
During his many years as a lawyer and business director of the RA-MICRO Software GmbH, one of Germanys
leading office software producer, he realized the great potential of digital speech processing early-on.
More than 60 partner firms and 6 support-centres provide customer service to several thousand customers
in hospitals, courts and insurance agencies alone in Germany.
They entered the UK and Ireland market in November 2003 and now have a network of distributors/sales
partners in the UK and Ireland. The sales partners in the UK include
TFB plc,
bdf solutions Ltd,
Phoenix Business Solutions (UK) Ltd,
The Speech Centre,
Volexia Ltd and
Data Supplies & Accessories Ltd..
The sales partners in Ireland include
ComputerSpeak and
Legal IT.
dictate2us (take the "online store" option)
supply digital dictation hardware solutions to thousands of customers throughout the UK and worldwide.
They sell all brands of dictaphones at cost to new clients. Clients who have bought from them so far
include universities, hospitals, legal practices and chartered surveyors.
DPS Software plc offers a
digital dictation management system called TeamTalk.
TeamTalk allows a fee earner to pick a document template to send with their dictation.
The secretary then types straight into the template sent by the fee earner. As part of the
work flow the document that has been typed can then be sent back to the fee earner for checking.
The fee earner can, if required, dictate amendments to the job and return it to the secretary
for final printing. The whole flow can be amended by the system administrator. The system
integrates fully with DPS case management system and also with other systems such as
iManage, PCDOCS, HOT DOCS, and Microsoft Word. TeamTalk is targeted at the enterprise
level firms and is in use by Levenes and Stanley Tee with 180 and 160 users respectively.
FLOvate Workflow Technologies has been providing Internet and business
process management solutions to clients in the Public and Private sectors for over decade with a
combination of bespoke solutions and special workflow software.
VoiceFLO provides digital dictation,
operating across multiple sites and allowing remote dictation and transcription.
G2 Speech is a major global player now entering the UK market.
It makes a particular point of the integration of its system with other document management and software systems
so, for example, name and address details (always the trickiest part of any dictation system) are collected
automatically from an appropriate database, as well as other key client and matter details.
It uses Philips speech recognition software (Philips is the only networked speech recognition product).
Grundig Business Systems(GBS) is one of the leading manufacturers
of professional dictation systems worldwide. The company is the only high-end producer in the industry developing
and manufacturing its products "made in Germany" and has sold more than four million dictation machines and
voice recorders. In 2008, GBS was named one of the top 100 most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany.
Also in 2008, it launched the worldwide first professional wireless dictation microphone, the Digta CordEx which
combines the benefits of desktop dictation with the flexibility of mobile dictation devices.
GBS offers a great variety of dictation devices and voice recorders which meet different individual
requirements. The company´s innovative and technically leading voice processing systems with sophisticated
design are distributed through a global partner network.
is a combination of speech recognition and document creation
with digital dictation at the front end that has been successfully installed in dozens of firms large and small
since its launch in January 2006.
The reason that LOASys succeeds where voice recognition has not, is that using the system, authors dictate in
their normal way. Using a microphone wired to their computer or a portable device, the digital capture of their
voice once transmitted to a voice processing computer on the network and transcribed into text.
The dictating author does not need to learn anything except how to press the correct buttons on the handset.
The software takes the spoken word, turns it into text and then places that text into a fully formatted document
populated with the recipient’s details. It receives the information that it needs to do this either from the
author selecting a document type and Client/Matter number at the dictation end or the editor at the completion end.
This editor can be an assistant/secretary or the author them self.
This system is extremely easy to operate and saves an incredible amount of time, effort and cost in the production of documents.
LOASys Limited has produced the first end to end voice to document production system in the world.
It is now being launched in the United States and Australia.
legalsupportnetwork.co.uk
is a community website for people who work in the operational, business services and support areas of law firms
and solicitors practices throughout the UK. They maintain a very useful selection of articles and resources
related to digital dictation and transcription services (free).
NDEVA was founded in 1995 as the North Devon Teleworking Association,
supporting and advising people working from home using internet technology. Teleworking, distance working and
outsourcing are all words ultimately meaning the same thing so the company has considerable experience in this area.
They supply a very wide range of recorders, transcription equipment, memory cards and peripherals from the
major manufacturers and ship worldwide.
nFlow Software is a leading developer of Digital Dictation
software to the legal market, and offers a range of solutions that provide comprehensive functionality,
intuitive usability, effortless deployment, easy system management, and remote working capability.
With offices in the UK, representatives in Benelux and Australia and an extensive customer base spanning
national and international territories, nFlow is one of the largest and most experienced in the digital dictation industry.
Drawing on a highly skilled team of technical, sales and support specialists, the teams are solely focused
on delivering innovative solutions, such as nFlow DDS v5, the only completely .NET, future-proof, enterprise
class solution of its kind on the market today and nFlowlive.com, a fully managed, flexible and low cost
fshosted solution, all delivered via industry-recognised, award-winning quality service.
Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for
businesses and consumers around the world. Products include Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 for the desktop and
Nuance Recognizer, RealSpeak, Nuance Voice Control and other products for networks.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking is probably the most popular desktop product for voice recognition available.
Pericom provides a digital dictation
system as well as its well known systems for practice management, case management
and electronic forms. It concentrates on medium sized and smaller firms, which
is unusual in the digital dictation market.
Philips is a large international company
offering a range of speech recognition products, including PC based systems and also central
server-based systems.
Three dedicated lines of businesses cover the field:
Dictation Systems for speech to text applications
Telephony Solutions for automated information provision (speech to information) over the telephone
Voice Control for embedded speech recognition in products and appliances.
Speech Processing Solutions was started in
1998 as an autonomous division of Stat Plus Limited, the legal specialist business services provider that
joined the OyezStraker group of companies in 2000.
Speech Processing Solutions therefore enjoy access to over 8,000 law firms in the UK who are already
customers of the group, as well as the financial security of being part of a 120 million group.
Products include these:
sps-dictation is a fully networked digital dictation application that has been designed with the busy law firm in mind.
sps-workflow is an enhanced version of sps-dictation gives the extra benefit of managing the process of the production of the dictated files.
sps-recognition is a server based network speech recognition application that takes the voice files produced by the author in the sps-dictation process.
sps-@nywhere is designed for people on the move or in the office. The first truly mobile solution to bring you all the benefits of digital dictation, combined with Microsoft's new Pocket PC platform.
Clients include Pellys, Stanley Tee and, most recently (February 2003), Martineau Johnson.
Speechwrite Digital is a national company
specialising in the provision of digital dictation
solutions for the legal and medical professions. With over 1000
customers from Glasgow to Cornwall and the
Isle of Wight, SpeechWrite Digital's primary market sector is 10
to 200 user sites where they can offer a variety of solutions to best
suit the practice's needs.
Speak IT Solutions supply digital dictation hardware and software
solutions to thousands of customers throughout the UK, Ireland and beyond.
Clients include universities, hospitals, police forces, legal practices and chartered surveyors,
from single user sites to multinational concerns.
Products offered include Olympus and Philips, Grundig and Sanyo, and workflow options, supplying
hardware for all the workflow solutions providers.
SRC is the largest Digital Dictation and
Speech Recognition solutions provider in the UK. SRC is the UKs exclusive WinScribe
Platinum Partner, providing the worlds most widely used digital dictation system
(over 450,000 users worldwide) to law firms of all sizes.
WinScribe offers a sophisticated intelligent work management system that encourages
work sharing and better use of support resources. Fee earners can dictate using
virtually any input device, including fixed-line and mobile telephones, Windows CE PDAs
and SmartPhones in addition to digital recorders and handheld microphones.
SRC holds accreditations from Olympus, Philips, IBM and ScanSoft and is a Microsoft
Certified Partner. The companys clients include Irwin Mitchell, Beachcroft Wansbroughs,
Pannone & Partners, Hill Dickinson, Dickson Dees, Morgan Cole, Hugh James, Berrymans Lace
Mawer, Donns and Cobbetts.
SRC also provides digital dictation and speech recognition products via an e-commerce website,
src-direct.co.uk.
UKTyping are
Suppliers of Olympus and Philips Digital Dictation Equipment at discounted prices. Same day despatch
is available with most models. Credit terms for Law Firms and Barristers Chambers.
UKTyping are Leaders in the field of outsourced typing and transcription services.
V7 Digital Dictation System is Windows based and can be scaled to satisfy a
small or large numbers of users. Software is loaded onto the hand-held recording device (not the PC)
and this results in a highly flexible system. The ability to send work to outsourced typing agencies
is an integral capability. Sending voice files to typists on the office network or via the Internet
is a single button operation for fee-earners. Management software makes the system economic, easy to
control and minimises IT costs. Users of the V7 system include solicitors Hereward & Foster,
Sills & Betteridge, Smith Jones and Flack & Co, along with Barrister's chambers Hardwicke Building –
all use the V7 system. V7's largest installation is a 550 seat system for a firm of surveyors.
V7 provides full support with installation, training and other services.
Voice Recognition Systems (VRS) is a specialist voice recognition
software and training company with eight years experience in the supply, installation, training and support of
speech recognition products and software. VRS provides systems for those who would prefer to talk to their computer
rather than type. Dictating at 140+ words per minute, speech recognition software enables users to work
faster and more efficiently. Users can create documents, enter data, fill in forms, send email and
control their desktop - all by voice. VRS are ScanSoft/Dragon Premier Partners. They also provide
digital dictation systems as a step forward from existing analogue tape-based dictation systems into advanced
computer-based systems providing greater flexibility and further savings in costs and time.
Professionals can now use digital dictation to immediately record vital information; this can then be emailed
to a relevant party for transcription or transcribed into a document on the computer screen when used in
conjunction with voice recognition software.
Voice Technologies is a provider of digital dictation
and a developer of speech recognition applications.
Voice Messenger is a tried and tested speech recognition solution developed exclusively for the legal
market. Powered by SpeechMagic from Philips, it brings together digital dictation,
speech recognition and workflow management into one system.
This can be achieved individually, throughout the practice or across the
world at multiple sites and locations.
Voice Messenger supports direct dictation into letters, forms or reports,
and converts them to text in real time. All functionalities can be accessed
in a web browser environment, so that users can work from any location
throughout the world. With Voice Messenger the user can navigate templates,
insert standard text blocks and format text by voice command. As a result
lawyers can now create, check and edit reports immediately, without the need
for time-consuming typing. The system is flexible with the option
to forward dictation to legal secretaries for complete typing or simply
correction in the case of speech recognition.
Winscribe Group provide
digital dictation and workflow systems integrating with hardware and software from
Philips Speech technology, Dragon, Sanyo, Grundig, Olympus, Legal Docs, ComMedica, DPS Software, HSS, Laserforms and
Torex. They provide a product called Winscribe Workflow.
The system is particularly flexible for different methods of dictation input, e.g. sitting at a PC, phoning in a
prepared dictation, using a standalone digital recorder or sending files by streaming audio (encrypted) over the
internet. They work with sales partners, e.g. Berrys, SRC and Voice Technologies and users of WinScribe include
Pannone & Partners, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, Saunders & Co., Cobbetts, Bishops, Shepherd+ Wedderburn and many others.
