Laywers are among the many professionals who are integrating speech recognition technologies and services into their dictation. Vendors have created industry-specific software, such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal (nuance.com), which is favored by many small firm practitioners. Meanwhile, large, often-international AmLaw 100 firms may have complete workflows based on legal-specific digital dictation “enterprise” software, such as those from Verdatum (verdatumsys.com), or vendors like BigHand (bighand.com) and Crescendo (crescendosystems.co.uk).
But you may want to forego voice recognition software when you need lightning-fast turnaround, suggests SpeakWrite CEO Richard Jackson. Voice recognition software may make its best guess for a word or name and put it in the document without warning, he cautions. “If speech recognition is 98% accurate, you’re still going to have 20 misidentified words scattered throughout a 1,000-word document.”
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