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What is digital dictation?
Legal Futures, 2024
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- What it is
- A trade-publication explainer, published 22 August 2024, that defines digital dictation as recording and editing speech digitally and describes the benefits of the approach for law firms.
- How much weight it carries
- The article carries a Philips Dictation byline, so its product framing is the vendor's. Used here only for the definition. Its benefit claims are the vendor's view and are not measured results.
Facts taken from this source
- Legal Futures says digital dictation recordings can be encrypted in real time, then uploaded to a cloud platform or routed by local network, FTP server or email for transcription.
“Recordings can be encrypted in real time and then uploaded to a cloud-based platform or routed to an appropriate destination via a local area network, FTP server or email for subsequent processing by in-house or external transcription services” (Body, paragraph after the heading 'What is digital dictation?')
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