Why is Digital Dictation so much better than traditional Analogue Dictation?
Analogue tape dictation systems can make it extremely difficult to efficiently manage your workload. This is often compounded by poor audio quality, old and unreliable machinery as well as tapes that get damaged and even lost. Digital recorders look very similar to traditional dictation machines, but use either built-in memory or removable memory cards typically 16 MB to 512 MB in size. The first advantage of this is that there is no motor or tape movement to interfere with the sounds you want to hear. Not only does this make the quality better, but once it is in digital format, it can be duplicated any number of times without losing any quality. Moreover, as a single computer file, it can be downloaded or transferred over a phone line from one person to the next. In other words, no courier service is needed, distance is not an issue and the turnaround time is drastically reduced. As each sound recording can be saved as an individual file you can quickly move between recordings with ju
