How To Use Offline Speech Recognition Software For Legal Transcription On Windows And macOS

Privacy is essential for legal transcription. And that’s why most organizations recommend using offline speech recognition applications instead of online applications when it comes to legal transcription.

On Windows and macOS, you can use SpeechPulse speech recognition application for offline legal transcription. You can also add your uncommon legal words/phrases to SpeechPulse using the custom vocabulary feature.

1. Download and install SpeechPulse
2. Download one of the speech models. Larger speech models have better accuracy, but smaller models run faster.
3. Select the speech model.
4. Create a custom vocabulary with your legal words and phrases. Custom vocabularies are only supported in the auto-punctuation mode.
   1. Go to "Settings->Options->Custom Vocabularies"
   2. Click "Add New Vocabulary"
   3. Enter a name for your vocabulary and add your legal words and phrases.
   4. Save the vocabulary.
5. Select your newly created vocabulary from the vocabulary dropdown.
6. Place the cursor into the text edit area and dictate in your natural voice. SpeechPulse will transcribe your legal dictation, accurately recognizing your legal terms, and insert the transcribed text into the text edit area.
7. You can also add multiple custom vocabularies with different groups of legal terms. You can easily switch between the vocabularies using the options window.