The Dictaphone company, which began over a century ago, develops voice recording, speech recognition, and knowledge-processing technology. Its speech recognition products include the ExSpeech, a fully integrated speech recognition complement to Enterprise Express, PowerScribe, a speech recognition system designed for radiologists, ichart Recognition which transforms dictation input via the telephone into Internet returned text reports, and Physician Workstation which has Direct PC Dictation, Web Electronic Signature, and Physician Access/Self-Editing of Reports through any equipped internet connected PC.

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ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Solutions

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Solutions speech recognition software enables physicians and nurses professionals to work faster and more efficiently. Spoken words appear on the screen and in electronic medical records, patient notes, and referral letters. Dictate letters, reports, and other documents; enter data; fill-in forms by voice. Integrated with Microsoft Office and Word, WordPerfect, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Solutions software integrates with all Windows based applications. Dictation can be done into a PC or into a hand held digital speech voice recorder for downloading into the speech recognition software.

Olympus Digital Voice Recorder

This Digital Speech Recorder holds up to 22 hours of DSS audio and up to 5 hours dictation in 16 MB smart media cards, stored in up to three separate folders which can be assigned names of up to eight characters, and store up to 199 messages per folder. The LCD screen displays message number, a real-time counter, remaining recording time, current time and date and operating mode. Editing capability allows easy overwrite, partial erase and insert. Store up to 10 different Author IDs in the recorder. It stores up to 10 different Work Types in the recorder for specifying the exact type of dictation to transcription services. It has Indexing and Voice Activation capability. There is a built-in USB interface to quickly transfer recorded voice data to a PC. Direct dictation to a PC is also possible when hooked up to a USB port. It includes DSS Player Pro Dictation Module Software. See http://innovation.olympus.com/ds3000.