1) General information

T-Pro Speech Direct allows clinicians of any medical specialty to dictate directly into text fields within any clinical or non-clinical 3rd party application, using front-end speech recognition.

Using a small, non-intrusive window, clinicians can access their single, unified voice profile anytime across a wide variety of devices and for example use their voice to:

update patient records, dictate notes, and fill out reports in any clinical system (e.g. PAS or EPR).
produce documentation in Windows-based applications (e.g. MS Word), create emails (e.g. MS Outlook) etc.

In addition, they can execute voice-based navigation commands, insert standardised boiler-plate text and (if needs be) correct the speech recognised text - all by voice.

Compatibility

OS Windows™ 10 and 11
Genie, Cerner, Cliniko, CRIS and to connections over Citrix, VMWare and Microsoft Remote Desktop

Best practices for best performance

Dictation

Before dictating, make sure the cursor is placed and blinking where you want to place text.
Think about what you want to say before you start to speak.
After you turn on the microphone, pause slightly before beginning dictation.
T-Pro speech recognition is designed to recognise conversational speech. Speak at your natural volume and pace and use natural phrases.
Turn off your microphone when you finish dictating.

Commands

Pause briefly before and after saying a command.
Do not pause in the middle of saying a command.

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3) Step by step guide

Using Speech Direct

Click on the icon on your desktop to start the application.

When the microphone icon is blue, the microphone is OFF.

Click on the icon to start recording.

When the microphone is active the icon turns red.

Click again to pause the recording.

You can also use the key combination Ctrl + space to start and stop recording.

Remember to place the cursor in the application where you want the text to appear.

There is an automatic timeout after one minute without any input.

Dictating common punctuation

You must speak punctuation when dictating with T-Pro Speech. Below is a list of common punctuation and what to speak:

Say	To Enter
full stop	.
comma	,
question mark	?
exclamation point	!
open bracket	(
close bracket	)
colon	:
semicolon	;
slash	/
hyphen	-

Notifications

The icon with the number indicates new notifications.

Click on it to view the notifications.

MICROPHONE SETUP

You only need this menu if you want to use a different microphone than your standard microphone.

You can also test your microphone here: say something and the blue bar indicates detected input.

Internal microphone

This is the build-in microphone of your PC. It's the default microphone if you do not work with other devices. It will be recognised automatically.

To change the microphone select a different entry from the list.

External microphone(s)

If you connect an external microphone it will be displayed in the list. Normally, your external device will be recognised automatically, and is ready for use.

The microphone last in use under your user profile will be remembered.
These external recording devices are compatible.

Your mobile phone

Use the option T-Pro Speech Remote Microphone (see the above screenshot) if you want to use your mobile phone as an external microphone.

See here for details on how to work with T-Pro Speech Remote Microphone.

AUTO TEXT

Build auto-texts to use a (short) voice command to implement standardised boilerplate text.

Create a list of commonly used or customised abbreviations and the respective full length text.

Click on the blue plus icon to add as many entries as you need.

FORMATTING

You can specify automatic formatting rules that Speech Direct applies to the spoken text, such as dates, numbers, units, etc.

Say	To Enter
fifty milligrams	50mg
40%	Forty percent
12th of December 2019	12/12/2019
psa	PSA
doctor	Dr

NOTE: Changing these options affects only the current user profile.

Editing text

New line/new paragraph
Select <word/phrase>
Delete that
Bold that
Underline that

COMMAND BUILDER

Create customised and complex command chains to simulate an entire sequence of actions which is executed by voice. A command chain can save you using the keyboard or mouse to preform certain actions during a dictation.

Commands work in groups.

You can define various scenarios when a group with its commands should be available.

There are the following command types to work with:

Text
Key
Comment
Window
Command
Script
Wait
Mouse

View an example of a command chain / sequence of actions here.

SPEECH BOX

If required, you can dictate into the SpeechBox and copy the contents into another application when you are done.

Speech Direct is able to detect that an unsupported application should be used and the speech box is triggered automatically.

If you want to keep using the speech box for all your dictations, just tick the box to keep it focused.

=> All dictations will appear in this box and are available for reuse. Just click on Copy Text to do so.

Resize the speech box with your mouse pointer at the lower right corner.

HELP

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You can further search the T-Pro Help site for other topics.

SIGN OUT

Sign out of T-Pro and prevent others from accessing your personal T-Pro Speech profile, use this option and confirm.

Exit T-Pro

You can also close the application without signing out. Just click on the X in the top right corner and confirm.

This means that you do not need to log in again the next time you open the app.

Be aware that in this way other users could also use the application.

The complete user manual can be downloaded here.