Voice Edition

Recent advances in voice recognition has enabled the traditional mask reporters to use voice-enable realtime transcription systems (CAT) to offer the service that are commonly available through realtime steno reporters (i.e. instant realtime feed to attorney workstations). The mask reporters who have adopted this technology to provide high-end litigation services are commonly referred to as voice writers.

Winner is the leading provider of professional-grade CAT to the voice writing community. Winner, unlike the competition, is a single vendor solution. It combines the power of CAT and voice recognition in one fully integrated deliverable. This approach relives the users from learning the idiosyncrasies of the off-the-shelf products, or vendors that do not offer an integrated application. Furthermore, Winner offers the aging steno community, suffering from RSI, the opportunity to become crossed trained in the art of voice writing and become proficient voice writers.

Winner is compatible with Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking.

Features

Features

Input Sources — The most unique feature of Winner is that if offers the user the option of choosing either their voice or stenotype to make the record. In fact, the user may change the method of making the record during a realtime session. This is an awesome feature to exercise when the user experiences fatigue during a session.

Speech Recognition — The long-term goal is to allow our users to choose their preferred speech recognition engine. However, Winner_VR supports the IBM ViaVoice and Dragon Naturally Speaking. Our studies have concluded that ViaVoice offers the end user a better speed to accuracy ratio and it is more suitable for realtime applications. Newer version of DNS have boast improved accuracy.
Our goal is to create products that are simple-to-use and user friendly. Dealing with the idiosyncrasies of speech recognition engines may be very time consuming. Unlike the competing computer-aided transcription systems, Winner_VR eliminates the need for a user to deal with these issues because the speech processing is transparent to the end user. Moreover, our approach offers the user a uniform user interface and it eliminates the need to learn to operate multiple products

Intelligent Homophone Resolution — Winner_VR automatically learns and resolves homophones (sound-alike). The more you use your software, the better it will get.

Speaker Identification Tokens — Identify the speakers by their names quickly and efficiently. This feature will improve the quality of your realtime translation.

Visual Effects — Every Winner_VR software package includes an analog-to-digital audio converter. The converter is used to enhance the quality of the input thus offering the end user better accuracy. It is also very important to maintain an audio level that enables the speech processing engine to hear the end user clearly. For this purpose, Winner_VR offers a visible volume meter to enable the user to gauge the input levels.

Vocabulary Manager and Expander — Adding new words and their corresponding pronunciations is the key to producing accurate realtime output and reducing transcript production time. Winner_VR offers the end user the option of using its “vocabulary expander” feature to learn new words and word usage from existing documents, or simply use the “vocabulary manager” to add new words to the vocabulary database.

Command and Controls — It refers to the process of controlling the flow and format of text on the consumers’ video display. Winner_VR provides the facility to create a comprehensive set of user-defined macros that the user may issue during a realtime (or post production) session. These macros may be used to format a transcript (i.e. Q indicator, A indicator, etc.), or to perform a “hand-off” command.

Multi-Track Audio Recording — Protecting the integrity of the record is essential to any transcription software. To that end, a user may enable the room recording feature in Winner_VR to digitally record the speakers’ voices (attorneys, Judge, etc.) while the software will automatically record the court reporter’s voice on a separate track. The two audio tracks will be synchronized with the text to enable the user to listen to either track during an editing session. Additionally, the court reporter may play back the room recording track in response to requests to read-back the record.

Realtime — Realtime for The Rest of Us! ProCAT introduced the first portable realtime software in 1986. Since the introduction of the first realtime software, we have continued to add intelligence to our software to help you produce a “cleaner” transcript, with minimum effort.

	Winner’s automatic number processing continually scans the realtime text to locate a sequence of events that would trigger the formatting of numbers (either numerals or words). This process automatically formats: telephone number, Social Security number, dollar amount, measurement, caliber, date, and time. It is important to emphasize the fact that there is no need for the user to change their writing style to accommodate the number conversion. Winner does it automatically!
	Automatic homonym/conflict resolution agent monitors the translation and traps the homonyms. Then using a knowledgebase it selects the appropriate word that completes the sentence. The knowledgebase grows as a user uses the software.
	Instant editing enables a user to translate and edit simultaneously. This feature makes daily and expedited jobs a breeze.
	AudioTrack™ is an automatic sound recording and synchronization feature in realtime. Activate this feature in realtime to record the spoken words and then play them back while editing to proof your transcript.
	The super token feature enables a user to define speakers names on the fly and change them as needed.
	Automatic punctuation maintains a grammatically correct format.
	Proper noun recognition and formatting assures correct case.
	Winner offers several time-stamping formats to choose from. The time stamps may appear on every line, every paragraph, or every occurrence of a question or answer. Time stamping feature is designed to meet the Canadian format requirements.
	Enlarge the screen zoom to make the text more readable or reduce the zoom to create space on the screen. This feature is ideal for CART reporters needing to display their text on a large screen for the hard of hearing or visually impaired person.
	Connect your realtime translation output to any popular attorney browser.
	Access any dictionary during realtime. The dictionary juggle function enables the user to view the dictionary entries before adding an entry to a dictionary.
	Unparalleled speed and performance. Winner realtime is optimized to translate and display a word immediately.
	Control the flow of the realtime from your steno keyboard.
	Issues keyboard commands (i.e. cursor movement, text editing, etc.) from the steno keyboard.
	View translation statistics.

Editing — Here are some of the unique features that has made Winner the choice of thousands of professional reporters:

	AutoProof™ — with the press of a single key, Winner will automatically proof an entire transcript. It searches for common grammatical and style errors. When it locates an inconsistency, it offers a correcting action.
	AutoIndex™ — Talking about timesavers, this ProCAT-first saves you hours because it will automatically produce an index page for you.
	Super Token and Form Fields are placeholders in your transcripts and include files. Placing the cursor on a field and pressing the lookup key will offer a list of replacements for the field (i.e. names and addresses of law firms in an appearance page).
	PowerKeys™ — Use this feature to create keyboard shortcuts to make your editing even more efficient.
	Dictionary juggle enables the user to lookup entries in the dictionaries from the editor.
	AudioTrack™ lets the user playback audio synchronized with the text.
	Embed exhibits in a transcript. Use an off-the-shelf flatbed scanner and convert your exhibit to a digital format then embed them into a transcript.
	Embed an audio message in your transcript to remind yourself or a scoper of an event.
	And many more…

Form Fields — Form fields are placeholders in your include files. You can replace these fields in an include file with the actual name from a database. This feature eliminates the need to repeatedly enter the same text into the editor.

3D-transcript™ — With the advent of the 32-bit technology it is possible to combine various data formats (i.e. text, audio, and video) in single bundle (in a universal format) for delivery to an end-user. You can use your Winner editor to embed audio, video, and images into a transcript and deliver the same to your clients using a standard format such as RTF or HTML.

Importing & Exporting — ProCAT has been a vocal supporter of data exchange using a standard format. Winner supports data import and export using pure RTF and its variation as adopted by the RTF/CRE pact amongst the CAT vendors. Winner supports the following export formats:

	Print image ASCII
	Pure ASCII
	Amicus
	HTML
	RTF
	RTF/CRE
	PDF

Backup and restore — No matter how reliable a computer may be, it is still necessary to keep an accurate and complete backup of your files. Winner offers two backup methods:

	Archive Wizard — It is by far the easiest and the most complete file backup and restore program. It is designed to be very simple to operate. It is based on Microsoft’s wizard technology. It simply walks a user step-by-step through a file backup and restore process, and it will automatically compress the files in the universal zip format.
	WinARC — More advanced users may apply their knowledge of Windows interface to navigate this explorer-like archive program to select a job, compress it, and back it up onto another drive.

Features

Features