Pacific Transcription partners with Dictate+, a dictation app designed specifically for iPhones and iPads.

This option ensures every Pacific Transcription client who uses their iPhone or iPad for dictation has access to a streamlined process, from dictation through to transcription.

Using this app means there’s no need to download your files to your computer, and then upload them manually to your secure client login for transcription.

There’s no need to email your dictations to your secretary for transcription. You don’t even have to use a dictaphone, and you certainly don’t have to stay in your office to dictate. With a simple press of a button, this is all done for you.

All you need is an iPhone, the Dictate+ app and a client account with Pacific Transcription. It really is that simple.

A subscription to the app can be purchased from the Apple iTunes store. There is a free version of this app is available to test out first; however, the free version has a limit of 5 dictations, each max. 30 seconds long.

So how do you get started?
1. Purchase a subscription to the app from the Apple App Store.

2. Self Register as a New Client with Pacific Transcription (if you are not already an existing Pacific Transcription client).

3. Contact us to let us know you wish to connect your app with your secure Pacific client account.  We’ll send you easy instructions for linking the app to your secure client account.

4. Start dictating!

5. Once you’ve finished dictating, click the send button, and your files will be automatically uploaded directly to your secure Pacific client account.

Remember, you must first have set up a client account with Pacific Transcription to obtain a username and password, and confirmed your requirements, before setting up the app for dictation and direct upload to Pacific.

Key Features of Dictate + dictation app:

• Rewind, overwrite, insert
• Instant dictation controls
• Precise voice activation
• Intuitive, easy to understand user interface
• Lots of sharing methods (E-mail, download, FTP, WebDAV, SFTP, Dropbox, box, etc.)
• Completely automatable sharing
• AES-128 encryption
• MP4/AAC, WAV, and AIFF format
• Barcode scanner
• Move and delete sections in a dictation
• Record in the background (no phone calls)
• Bookmarks in dictations

A subscription to the app is inexpensive, and has an upper limit of dictations 24 hours long, more than enough time for each batch of dictations. The Dictate+ dictation app really does rival professional dictaphones with its excellent sound quality, precise voice activation, secure encryption and multiple ways of transferring your dictations.

The partnership between Pacific Transcription and the creators of this dictation app means Pacific Transcription clients who use iPhones or iPads for dictation will experience a significant streamlining of the dictation and transcription process. The dictating and transferring of files is simpler, we get your dictations faster, and you get your completed transcripts back sooner.

Pacific clients get the best of both worlds – the perfect marriage between cutting edge technology and exceptional, reliable, time-tested and quality-driven transcription services.