Wake Smith First to Select Olympus DR-2000 Devices as Part of Digital Dictation Workflow Solution

Wake Smith, the Sheffield law firm that recently merged with Benson Clegg Solicitors, taking the number of employees to over 180, has commenced the roll-out of the WinScribe digital dictation system using the new Olympus DR-2000 handheld microphones. The solution is being deployed by SRC, the UK’s exclusive WinScribe Platinum Partner.

London (PRWEB) August 29, 2006 -- Wake Smith, the Sheffield law firm that recently merged with Benson Clegg Solicitors, taking the number of employees to over 180, has commenced the roll-out of the WinScribe digital dictation system using the new Olympus DR-2000 handheld microphones. The solution is being deployed by SRC, the UK’s exclusive WinScribe Platinum Partner.

Wake Smith is the first law firm to select the new Olympus DR-2000 handheld microphones as its preferred input device. In May 2006, WinScribe announced that it had become the first digital dictation system to integrate with these new generation Olympus Directrec devices. Uniquely, this provides full control of the WinScribe interface from a handheld microphone without requiring any additional software or device drivers, making deployment simple.

Explaining Wake Smith’s reasons for introducing the WinScribe digital dictation system from SRC, Paul Thorn, IT partner and head of family said, “Over the past five years the firm has experienced significant growth, with both turnover and size more than doubling. It’s clear that in order to sustain this growth we need to have the very best systems, processes and infrastructure in place to enable all our staff to work as effectively as possible; digital dictation is a significant part of this strategy.”

“Our objectives for the adoption of WinScribe digital dictation are two-fold, to eliminate peak-time backlogs experienced with our previous analogue tape system, thus reducing document turnaround times, and to provide a robust platform for the firm to grow.”

“We were impressed by the experience of other firms that have been able to support substantial growth using WinScribe from SRC and look forward to achieving similar results.”

The introduction of WinScribe digital dictation is being fully project managed by SRC, who in addition to providing the WinScribe system and Olympus DR-2000 handheld microphones, are delivering a range of high-quality deployment services, including training for authors, secretaries and administrators and support services.

About Wake Smith
Wake Smith has been established in Sheffield for over 200 years and is one of the leading practices in the region. Employing more than 70 lawyers and 145 staff Wake Smith competes on both price and quality with some of the largest firms in the UK.

About Benson Clegg
Benson Clegg itself was formed by the merger of Benson Flint and Clegg and Sons in 2000. Some of the constituent parts were founded in the 1850s. Benson Clegg employs 15 Lawyers and 35 staff in total.

About SRC
SRC are the UK’s leading document creation professionals. The company's mission is to ensure its customers achieve cost savings and productivity improvements through the delivery, implementation and support of leading edge document creation technologies.

SRC provides consultancy for all elements of the professional document creation process together with high-quality delivery, implementation and support services. SRC's teams combine years of industry experience with the ability and commitment to deliver solutions that not only meet but exceed customers' objectives.

SRC only partners with best-of-breed, global technology providers, including WinScribe, Nuance, Olympus, Philips, Grundig and Workshare. The company is the UK's exclusive WinScribe Platinum Partner and is the holder of several Dragon NaturallySpeaking Partner Awards recognising the high-quality of its speech recognition solutions. SRC is a Microsoft Certified Partner.

SRC also sells document creation products via the SRC Direct website.

SRC is privately owned and backed by leading financial institution, Esprit Capital Partners (formerly Cazenove Private Equity).

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