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BigLaw: Should Large Firms Invest in Speech Recognition Software?

By Roy Greenberg

Originally published on September 20, 2010 in our free BigLaw newsletter. Speak and your words appear on screen. What more could a busy lawyer want? Speech recognition is a mature technology that routinely produces astonishing results. So why haven't more large law firms adopted it? Many lawyers misunderstand Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Dragon), the best-known speech recognition software (available for both Mac OS X and Windows). Dragon doesn't turn lawyers into secretaries. You don't use it to generate finished work product. Nothing beats an experienced assistant for formatting and polishing the first draft of a dictated document. Also, if you assemble documents based upon pre-existing clauses, consider document assembly software instead of speech recognition software...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).

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