A Guide to Dictation Best Practices
Welcome to this online guide for the professional services industry on better dictation skills . After consulting with experienced dictation users we've put together what we hope will be a useful and informative guide on how to dictate. Whether you're a trainee new to digital dictation or just want to update your dictation skills it's never too late to change bad habits into good working practice.
Why Dictate?
A survey taken by firms that had recently moved to digital dictation discovered that authors using digital dictation save themselves an average of 8 minutes per 1 page document produced. If an author produced 100 pages of text a week, this will save them around 12 hours.
Firms expect it
A recent survey with the Legal Technology Insider highlighted some key facts about Digital Dictation:
- Firstly, the law industry expects lawyers to be able to dictate.
- Secondly, even with the growing number of lawyers being able to dictate, and the introduction of speech recognition, 63% AND 72%, thought that this would not eliminate the need for dictation to be used.
It is believed that these results are fairly indicative of all professional service firms, not just law firms and is a clear indication that dictation training should become a standard part of new starter inductions at all firms. The need to train new staff how to dictate remains as key as ever to the efficient production of text within the professional services industry.
Give your staff free dictation training
As part of this drive to provide a free training resource we are please to provide a complete training video on the information contained in this site. Please feel free to download it from the link below and use it as many times as you wish. Please also feel free to share this link with colleagues and friends in other businesses who you feel will find it useful.