WinScribe Pocket Author
In today’s corporate environment it is highly important that businesses offer staff the ability to be totally mobile while still having access to their core business applications such as internet, email and dictation. No business can afford lost productivity for staff who are constantly out of the office and on the move.
With this in mind, WinScribe has developed WinScribe Pocket Author a dictation application, offering a user-friendly interface for dictating on handheld PC’s or mobile devices that use the Microsoft Pocket PC operating system.
• Anywhere, anytime dictation and review
- minimize lost time and productivity when out of the office and achieve a more proactive response to clients.
• Fully featured finger touch control
- ease-of-use
• Secure voice and data transmission
- maintain high levels of client confidentiality
• High quality – low bandwidth audio format
- high quality voice recordings
• Speech recognition integration
- improve document turnaround time
• Online/Offline functionality
- dictate even without a connection
• Wireless 802.1, ActiveSync, GSM, GPRS connectivity
- keeps users informed, view job status, change priority,
review work – wirelessly, anywhere
• Fully integrated with the WinScribe product
Anywhere, anytime dictation
WinScribe Pocket Author offers unparalleled functionality to speed up work turnaround. With options to route work directly to a secretary or typing pool you have the power of choice in your hand. Dictation can be uploaded anywhere, anytime with client demographics attached, ensuring document accuracy and accelerating the transcription process.
The WinScribe PDA application communicates with the WinScribe server via HTTP or HTTPS. This allows authors to dictate while on the move and have the voice files automatically sent to the server whenever a connection is present. Connection methods that allow us to work this way include Wireless technology, GSM/GPRS/Bluetooth/Cellular, etc.
When a connection is not readily available, WinScribe Pocket Author is also able to work in offline mode. In this instance, voice files are stored on the local device until when a connection is present, or when the PDA device is docked in its cradle connected to a PC with Microsoft ActiveSync installed.
Secure voice and data transmission
We recognize that you need to protect sensitive voice and data. WinScribe Pocket Author can be configured to use 128-bit encryption ensuring patient/client confidentiality is never compromised.
High quality – low bandwidth audio format
Pocket Author uses the latest voice compression technology to produce high quality voice recordings offering up to 5 hours of recording on a standard 64 MB memory card. Users can either dock their device or connect wirelessly to automatically upload work.
Fully featured finger touch control
WinScribe Pocket Author provides for single-handed operation and finger touch control of all dictation functions. Options exist for record, record-insert, record-overwrite and job priority. The interface and finger control buttons can even be reversed to suit your working style whether you are left handed or right handed.
Speech recognition integration
Pocket Author records using high quality audio suitable for use with WinScribe’s server based speech recognition solution. Authors are free to dictate anywhere, anytime and have their dictation automatically routed for recognition. This optional functionality greatly improves document turnaround time.
Streamlined workload
The difference between using a PDA device with the WinScribe Pocket Author application versus using a digital portable device is that voice files recorded with WinScribe Pocket Author are uploaded immediately upon a connection being present, versus waiting for the device to be docked. This means that wherever your authors are, dictation is immediately available to transcription staff allowing for a more streamlined workload without peaks and troughs.
Using a software application on the PDA also allows authors to enter crucial information to be sent for transcription such as important notes, the patient/client number, etc.
Operating systems
The following operating systems are compatible with WinScribe Pocket Author:
• Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition
• Windows Mobile Version 5.0
• Microsoft Pocket PC Version 3.0