The Speech Recognition Investment

Yes, the choice to use speech recognition is an investment choice. Properly done, speech recognition will improve productivity and reduce overhead. Typically, an attorney will achieve a 100% return on investment after just two to three month of use. Here's how:

INCREASE BILLING TIME:
Attorneys who wish to maintain their traditional workflow can dictate into a hand-held recorder or save the recorded dictation with their documents for someone else to transcribe or correct. This can substantially reduce the turnaround time over traditional transcription. If transcription is produced in house, using speech recognition software frees up support staff for more productive tasks. If transcription is outsourced for correction, costs can be significantly reduced.

SPEED UP REPETITIVE TASKS:
Repetitive tasks such as data entry or form filling can be speeded up using speech recognition. In many cases users who are unfamiliar with complex software programs are more comfortable telling the computer what to do than trying to master the interface. SpeechReady can create specialized programs called "macros" that enable users to navigate through programs by voice, or to perform a complex sequence of keystrokes or mouse movements by simply speaking a single word. Even skilled users and typists are often slower at entering numbers and letters.

INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY ON THE ROAD:
Attorneys can increase their productivity during travel time or when away from the office by dictating into a hand-held recorder for automated transcription later.

USES OF SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE IN A LEGAL ENVIRONMENT:
Many firms are investing heavily in technology to win new clients by delivering a fast, efficient, cost-effective service. Immediate benefits include the ability for attorneys to get documents to clients quicker than before because attorneys can create and complete documents themselves, without waiting for someone to type the documents for them.