From SpeechExec to SpeechLive: Extend your dictation workflow with the latest technology

If your team uses Philips SpeechExec, you already know the value of an established dictation workflow. Dictation apps allow authors to record their work, while transcriptionists then receive the audio and documents move toward completion.

As teams work across offices, homes, and other locations, it may be time to consider where that workflow lives. As a SpeechExec alternative, Philips SpeechLive brings dictation and transcription into a connected and secure cloud environment. SpeechLive also offers additional use case options and access to the newest technology for speech recognition and AI document drafting.

Table of contents

• Keep authors and transcriptionists connected
• Work beyond a single desktop
• Reduce the work behind the workflow
• Add professional speech recognition to your documentation workflow
• Choose what happens next
• Plan your next step from SpeechExec

Keep authors and transcriptionists connected

Moving to SpeechLive does not mean giving up the roles your team knows. Authors can continue creating dictations and assigning work to transcriptionists. Transcriptionists can continue managing and completing their assigned recordings.

The difference is that, as a cloud dictation software, both can work within a shared SpeechLive workflow and still respect the various existing structures teams might have. Authors can see the status of their dictations, while transcriptionists can access audio files and complete the documents.

Work beyond a single desktop

A dictation may begin in the office, but the person who needs to work on it may be elsewhere. SpeechLive gives users access to their cloud-based workflow through a browser, with mobile dictation options for authors who need to dictate away from their desks.

For organizations with teams in different locations, this makes it easier to keep dictations and transcription work connected. It also gives users more flexibility in how they capture recordings and access their assigned work.

Reduce the work behind the workflow

A locally managed dictation setup needs attention from IT, including software installation, updates, and support for individual workstations. Those tasks can become more involved as teams grow or work across locations.

With SpeechLive, platform management and updates are handled by Philips Speech AI. Organizations can reduce their reliance on locally installed software while continuing to provide a structured workflow for authors and transcriptionists.

Add professional speech recognition to your documentation workflow

For SpeechExec teams, dictation is only one part of document creation. Some already use Dragon speech recognition alongside SpeechExec, while others still rely primarily on transcriptionists to turn recordings into text.

SpeechLive gives both groups another option. Authors can send recordings to SpeechLive speech recognition to create a draft transcript, which they or their transcriptionists can then review and edit. On the other hand, authors can use SpeechLive speech recognition in the same way they used Dragon. Both of these speech recognition options are also offered on the SpeechLive smartphone app.

This means organizations can decide how each type of work moves from voice to text. A recording can be assigned to a transcriptionist, processed with speech recognition, or handled using a combination of automated transcription and human review. The choice depends on the document, the team, and how they prefer to work.

For SpeechExec users, this is an opportunity to do more than move an existing workflow to the cloud. They can bring dictation, speech-to-text, and review into a connected process – then explore additional AI-assisted documentation capabilities as their needs develop.

Choose what happens next

Teams with more specialized documentation needs can explore additional AI-assisted capabilities to stay productive.

Philips SpeechLive Legal AI Assistant, as an additional module to the cloud-based dictation workflow and the speech recognition tool, helps legal professionals use dictation, supporting context sources, and predefined or custom templates to create structured document drafts for review. For a closer look at the process, read our guide to AI-assisted legal document generation.

If your firm is also reviewing its wider dictation setup, explore our guide to choosing legal dictation software.

Philips SpeechLive Health AI Assistant supports clinical documentation from patient conversations. To learn more about how patient conversations and ambient AI can support clinical documentation, read our guide to ambient AI in healthcare.

Philips SpeechLive Professional AI Assistant helps professionals create structured drafts from dictation and supporting files using templates. 

These capabilities give organizations options as their documentation needs develop. They do not need to adopt every feature as part of the initial move to SpeechLive.

Plan your next step from SpeechExec

The best starting point is your current workflow: how authors record, how transcriptionists receive work, which devices your team uses, and where documents need to go when they are complete. From there, you can assess how SpeechLive fits your team and which capabilities would be useful to introduce first. Then, you can evaluate which additional use cases you have been using SpeechExec for and which you will now need to have covered.

If you use SpeechExec today, book a SpeechLive demo to explore how your dictation and transcription workflow could work in a connected environment.

*Disclosure: this article was written and reviewed by human editors, and modified with the help of AI.