All of the staff at Freedom of Speech Ltd would like to wish all of our clients, suppliers & ATW assessors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Dragon Medical Practice Edition 3 is designed specifically for GP surgeries and medical centers. It provides advanced professional medical speech recognition capabilities including a wide range of medical vocabularies and includes a wide range of medical vocabularies, making it quick and easy to update electronic patient records – freeing up more time to care for patients. Contact us for a demonstration, pricing and further information.
September sees Nuance launch a new version of the award winning Dragon Professional Individual software. Version 15 is a new milestone in speech recognition speed and accuracy, now powered by Nuance's new next-generation "Deep Learning" speech engine with:
• up to 10% greater accuracy over Dragon Professional Individual, v14
• advanced formatting voice commands
• enhanced transcription capabilities
• optimisation for Windows 10 touchscreen PCs
• application support for WordPerfect X8 and Skype for Business
New Dragon Professional Individual v15 introduces a smarter, next-generation speech engine with cutting-edge "Deep Learning" technology. The speed and accuracy increases will amaze you. New transcription features, broader application support, optimisation for popular touchscreen PCs and contextual guidance tailored to your usage are just a few of the other innovative new features.
Get these powerful new features in Dragon Professional Individual, v15
NEW: Next-generation "Deep Learning" speech engine
With over 2,000 voice and language scientists dedicated to innovating and developing new features, Dragon introduces "Deep Learning" technology and adaptation techniques that continuously adjust to your voice even if you have an accent or if you're in an environment where there are slight background noises. Version 15 is up to 10% more accurate than the previous version, right out of the box, with no training required.
NEW: Advanced formatting and impressive recognition improvements
Version 15 delivers laser-sharp recognition results when dictating numbers, email addresses, and place names based on how we normally speak, resulting in effortless post-editing corrections. Examples include: "quarter to five" -> "4:45".
NEW: Optimised for Windows 10 touchscreen PCs
Dragon is fully optimised for use with today's popular Windows 10 touchscreen laptops, tablets, and mobile devices with hybrid touch and keyboard interaction modes. Work just as efficiently whether on the move or in the office.
NEW: Faster and easier microphone setup
Dragon provides an improved user experience by simplifying the microphone selection process. Also, adding a new mic source is faster and easier than ever with no additional training requirements.
NEW: Enriched user interface and experience
Dragon delivers an exceptional user experience that makes powerful features easier to discover and use such as an improved "Options" menu, improved browser experience, and a blazing-fast startup time. Synchronisation of shared words and auto-texts from your Dragon Anywhere mobile device account is now more conveniently performed in the background (Dragon Anywhere, Nuance's mobile dictation solution, is sold separately).
NEW: Enhanced transcription
The improved transcription process leverages all the accuracy improvements gained from the next-generation "Deep Learning" speech engine, while reducing the number of steps required to getting your audio recordings transcribed. Training is no longer required for personal transcription, or for **third-party transcription.
NEW: Exceptional web and application support
Dragon empowers you to work even more quickly and accurately by voice with support for Enhanced Dictation within the latest business applications such as WordPerfect X8 and Skype for Business.
NEW: Valuable productivity tips and improved online help
Dragon offers new ways to accelerate proficiency by offering a wide array of enhanced tools to help you discover advanced Dragon features such as tutorial videos, productivity tips, browser help, and much more.
Dragon Professional Individual, v15 works with Windows 10, 8.1, 7 (32- and 64-bit); Windows Server 2012 R2 & 2008 R2.
It is currently available as an Electronic Software Download (ESD). Boxed editions will ship from 15th September as will Freedom of Speech Ltd's 'Access to Work' edition. Contact us for further information and pricing.
Nuance User Management Centre (NUMC) – Central user administration for Dragon Professional Group
Nuance recently released an enhancement to Dragon Professional Group (DPG) licenses in the form of the User Management Centre which is designed for corporate deployments of Dragon Professional Group speech recognition software. A web based interface allows you to access the NUMC and configure DPG user licenses, options etc.
Key features include:
- Central management at the user, site, group or enterprise-wide level to save time and operating costs
- Full scalability to support any number of licenses
- Usage reporting to support efficient use of licenses, optimized usage trends, improved productivity and ease of ROI evaluation
- License management to help drive adherence to reporting workflows and meet stringent reporting
- Requirements
- Global deployment of custom commands, words and vocabularies
Pricing starts from £23+VAT per user (per 12 month subscription) - Contact us for further information
Due to our recent business expansion, we are looking for a new member of staff to join our team. Details are below.
External Sales and Development Executive Role
Freedom of Speech Ltd have a collective experience of over 40 years installing, training and supporting speech recognition solutions & assistive technology for a wide variety of companies across the UK who want to improve their document turnaround time, staff efficiency or to enable disabled staff to operate a PC efficiently. We also provide one-to-one tuition and assistance to clients with learning disabilities such as dyslexia and dyspraxia. Areas in which we may assist them include teaching organisational skills, memory strategies, time management, planning work schedules, literacy skills / reading skills / writing skills, confidence building & computer skills.
As a Sales & Development Executive you will be responsible for:
- Visiting potential customers for new business
- Provide customers with quotations
- Negotiate the terms of an agreement and close sales
- Gather market and customer information and provide feedback on buying trends
- Represent Freedom of Speech at trade exhibitions, events and software demonstrations
- Identify new markets and business opportunities
- Create a pipeline of new business and develop new opportunities within our existing portfolio of clients.
- Review your own sales performance and provide weekly reports of activities.
Full product training and support will be offered to the successful candidate.
Skills required
The successful candidate should have the following attributes:
- Self-motivated, outgoing, confident, and have strong communication skills.
- You should be an accomplished problem solver and work well on your own and in a team.
- Full training and product knowledge will be provided.
- Confident with IT and windows packages.
Job package
The successful candidate will receive the following:
- Salary negotiable ranging from £14,000 to £18,000 per annum basic (dependant on experience)
- Commission based bonus structure
- Company car allowance
- Private healthcare insurance
Additional benefits include laptop, mobile phone, satellite navigation & company/travel expenses.
Location
Worthing (West Sussex) or local area.
Working week
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm
If you are interested in this challenging new role, send us your CV (via post or e-mail), your current salary and confirmation that you have a full, clean driving license to:
Gary May (garymay@freedomofspeech.co.uk)
Freedom of Speech Ltd, Columbia House, Columbia Drive, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 3HD.
Nuance recently released the PowerMic III microphone which offers simplified, thumb-control operation for dictating, navigating, reviewing and editing speech recognition generated documentation.
The PowerMic III advances clinician & professional PC dictation to a new level, making it easier and faster to control voice recording, navigate and select fields in on-screen templates and standard reports and move through recognised text reports for review and editing.
In addition to providing complete dictation control, the PowerMic III incorporates full-function, Microsoft compatible, PC mouse capabilities into the microphone to reduce the need for care givers to move between the microphone, mouse and keyboard.
Clinicians can rapidly navigate report template fields, then record and use “voice fill-in” capabilities to insert recognised text into report templates. By combining an ergonomic hand microphone with PC mouse functions, clinicians gain new levels of dictation speed, ease-of-use and productivity.
The Powermic III features USB connectivity for easy plug and-play installation as well as eliminating the need for sound card-enabled PCs and a unidirectional microphone with noise-cancellation ensuring higher accuracy in even the noisiest environments.
This device is compatible with both Dragon Medical Practice Edition 3 and, for the first time in Powermic history, Dragon Professional Group.
Click here for further information and to purchase via our webshop.
A scientific trial assessing medical documentation speed and accuracy when using Nuance’s clinical speech recognition technology - compared to physicians typing data - has been conducted at Düsseldorf University Hospital in Germany in a first of its kind worldwide. In addition to measuring documentation speed and accuracy, the objective of the independent study was to detail objectively the effects of using Nuance’s medical speech recognition solutions in a university hospital with respect to documentation completeness, length and physician satisfaction over other means of entering information into Electronic Patient Records (EPRs).
Key findings include:
- The overall increase in documentation speed through web-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) assistance was 26%
- Participants documented an average of 356 characters per report when not assisted by ASR and 649 characters per report when assisted by ASR – an 82% increase
- Participants' average mood rating was 1.3 using ASR assistance compared to 1.6 without ASR assistance (scale of 1-3 where 1 =good)
Out of 1,455 reports, 718 (49.35%) were assisted by speech recognition technology and 737 (50.65%) were not. The authors of the report concluded that medical documentation with the assistance of speech recognition technology leads to an increase in documentation speed, document length and completeness and participants' mood when compared to self-typing. They also concluded that Nuance medical speech recognition is a meaningful and effective tool for the clinical documentation process.
In the trial’s analysis of 1,455 reports, physician documentation was completed 26% faster using speech recognition technology assistance.
The research findings come at a key time for healthcare providers as they make the transition to EPRs and consider the most effective data input options in order to realise the full benefits of deploying digital records. Given that healthcare professionals spend a significant portion of their time on the computer and are rarely trained typists, alternatives to typing - such as modern and accurate speech recognition technology– have the potential to improve the satisfaction of health professionals through increased documentation efficiency, accuracy and quality.
“Medical professionals consistently voice their desire to have their administration burden reduced in order to have more time to spend with their patients, to put them back at the centre of care. This most recent trial demonstrates that using speech recognition can help free healthcare providers to deliver the personal attention that both patients demand and that healthcare professionals want to provide,” said Alan Fowles, senior vice president, Nuance Healthcare International Sales & Operations.
Contact us for information and pricing on the latest medical speech recognition solutions.