TechnoLawyer: Dictation/OCR/Speech Recognition

Coming today to Answers to Questions: David Stuckel reviews the Philips Pocket Memo 9360, Ann Donovan reviews Fastcase for legal research, Richard Hackerd discusses the expectations of law firms within the context of Amicus Attorney, Julian Garcia discusses KVM switches and reviews LogMeIn, and Jim Uschold shares his two main complaints about WordPerfect after 20 years of daily use. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming today to Answers to Questions: Corey Rich reviews the Firefox extension ScrapBook for capturing and saving Web pages, Jeff Schlueter discusses file format and device options for spoken audio as well as some thoughts on audio discovery, and Julian Garcia explains why you should avoid long file names. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming Septeber 30, 2008 to TechnoFeature: Technology certainly trends towards light and portable these days. But you need more than just a pretty face. You need functionality. In this article, attorney Lee Rosen explains how to lighten your load without sacrificing productivity by conducting a six step technology audit.

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Coming September 18, 2008 to Answers to Questions: Andrea Cannavina reviews the Olympus DS-4000 and DS-2300 as well as the Philips Pocket Memo 9600, Howard Walker reviews Amicus Attorney 2008 Small Firm Edition (plus a response from Gavel and Gown Software), James Vernon reviews Prolaw READY and how it stacks up against its competitors, Kathy Burnett offers a courtroom presentation tip, and J. J. explains why one word processor will always have the edge. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming August 27, 2008 to Answers to Questions: Nerino Petro discusses how to get your hands on a digital recorder with a 4-in-1 slide switch, Daniel Holt shares his file naming dos and don'ts, and James Kamp reviews Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred and the Olympus DS-50 digital recorder. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming July 31, 2008 to Answers to Questions: Neil Packard shares tips for Bates stamping documents and explains which format generally works best for discovery documents, Francis Jackson compares Amicus Attorney to Prevail for practice management, Simon Berglund discusses the difference between MP3 and Digital Speech Standard (DSS) devices and how to choose between them, Kerry Hubick reviews Copernic Desktop Search, and Michael Markovitz reviews PaperPort, including how he uses it with his scanner. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming July 10, 2008 to Answers to Questions: Bob Moss reviews Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Professional and how it compares to the other versions available, Todd Taylor explains how to create a free document management system with Windows Explorer, Kerry Carroll discusses the pdfDocs Desktop suite as an alternative to Nuance's PaperPort, PDF Converter, and OmniPage, Ralph Oser points to a timely article about pasting unformatted text in Word and Outlook, and Sandy Bautch reviews QuickFile4Outlook — Lawyers Edition. Don't miss this issue.

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In Servers Become Dell's Comeback Weapon, Business Week profiles a resurgent Dell, clawing its way back to the top by focusing on high-margin servers. We bought two Dell servers seven months ago that have performed well so far. What's your take?

With Bill Gates about to step down (though he will remain chairman so I fail to see his "retirement" as a major event), Computerworld has published its take on his five smartest moves  and his five dumbest moves. Among the dumbest moves, "bungling the antitrust case." What's your take on Bill Gates' career?

Talk about flying under the radar, while many corporate types have bemoaned the lack of voice dialing on the iPhone, Nuance recently demonstrated a prototype application for the iPhone in which you can search Google by voice. The idea is that someday soon you'll search the Web, write email, place calls, etc. on your smartphone with your voice. Take a look at the demos and then weigh in with your take on voice recognition for mobile devices.

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Coming June 26, 2008 to Answers to Questions: Michael Schley reviews ISYS:desktop 8 compares it to free desktop search programs, Douglas Folk explains why you may not want to switch to Mac and he reviews Trend Micro OfficeScan, Wayne Grant reviews Topdeq's GO-2 desk, Phyllis Dubrow reviews PureText, and Harold Lloyd reviews Nuance products PaperPort, OmniPage, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming June 19, 2008 to Answers to Questions: G. Blair McCune reviews Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred and Professional (and explains the difference between the two), Edward Zohn explains how he uses QuickBooks to handle trust accounts (without setting up a separate set of books), Peter Pike reviews OmniPage Pro for OCR and its Word/WordPerfect integration, Ed Walters shares his favorite way to copy and paste from Word to WordPerfect, and Brent Blanchard discusses legal research pricing and adhesion contracts. Don't miss this issue.

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