Speech recognition technology is the wave of the future, and as computing devices keep getting smaller, it will become an integral part of how users communicate with their devices. The virtual assistant Siri by Apple (News - Alert) is a great example of how this technology has improved in the past five years. BigHand, a voice productivity technology providing solutions to the legal market, uses speech recognition technology to provide digital dictation and other services. The company's platform allows organizations to develop documents faster using dictation from virtually anywhere.
McKays Solicitors, a law practice with multiple offices in Queensland, Australia, has integrated the BigHand platform to improve document turnaround times and backlog with the company's speech recognition technology. Sending work to the server for an automatic transcription using the smartphone application has made the firm more productive.
The platform is available as professional and enterprise editions designed to address the needs of different sized organizations. The professional edition is for smaller firms and provides the following: It allows hosted digital dictation workflow; Offers the capability to record, edit and instantly submit voice files to admin support; Allows the user to set priorities and alerts to ensure important work is expedited; and supports BlackBerry, iPhone (News - Alert) Android, and Windows Phone devices.
The enterprise edition also supports the four mobile operating devices and it is a .NET-based voice productivity application installed on an in-house server with an advanced digital dictation workflow system for office productivity and work sharing. It converts voice-to-text by using the company's server-based Speech Recognition Engine with management reporting and functionality for professions that rely on dictation.
Firms have the option to process and prioritize dictations with customized workflows and work share dictations with more accuracy and speed to ensure important documents get processed.
BigHand was established in 1996 and it provides services to more than 170,000 professionals around the world, across 1,600 organizations.