Digital Dictation for Law Firms

Digital dictation is revolutionizing document creation for countless law firms, from the very largest, to those with just a few attorneys.

Overview

Digital dictation solutions increase productivity, enable cost efficient growth, encourage work-sharing, and allow attorneys to work remotely. Users who became self sufficient with the adoption of laptops or found dictation cumbersome in the past, are becoming digital dictations’ strongest advocates. Efficiently managing the turnaround of work for a team of secretaries is extremely difficult. Secretaries have to wait to receive a full tape, which may contain hours of work. This, compounded by the age-old problems of poor audio quality, old tape players and finding the priority dictation on a 90 minute tape.

To solve this challenge, the majority of Van Ausdall & Farrar’s legal customers have adopted a digital dictation system. Enabling dictations to be intelligently managed via a central server and automatically sent to secretaries or outsourced transcription providers, to streamline the process and reduce document turnaround times. One of Van Ausdall’s legal technology providers, WinScribe, is in use by over 250 law firms* in the US alone, with the number growing every month.

Van Ausdall & Farrar has been providing speech technology solutions to the legal sector since the company's formation in 1914. This unrivaled experience, coupled with Van Ausdall & Farrar’s partnerships with the world's best dictation hardware and software enables us to provide solutions that meet and exceed our legal customer's expectations.

Speech Recognition for Attorneys

For law firms where attorneys type their own documents, introducing a speech recognition solution could be more beneficial than digital dictation. WinScribe leads the US market in providing voice recognition vocabularies for the legal sector, to maximize performance and user acceptance. A few of the advantages include; Reducing document turnaround times and improving client service, encourage work sharing and improve secretarial utilization, improve attorney to secretary ratios, give lawyers maximum flexibility to work anytime, anywhere and easy integration with case, practice and document management systems.

Read: Butler Snow Leverages WinScribe Speech Recognition to Make More Efficient Use of Staff Resources (pdf)