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The dictator brings the skills of the author, physician, attorney, executive, and so forth, to bear in the creation of documents for use by others or for the record. It is not necessarily the dictator's job to be a good communicator in a journalistic sense. Rather, he or she produces a narrative for the task at hand, whether it is an entry into a patient's medical chart, a legal brief for pending litigation, or a memorandum of policy for internal distribution. Usually, copy editing is not a strength, nor is keyboarding skill. These are more commonly the domain of the transciptionist.

As the words of the dictator pass through the ears of the transcriptionist and out the fingers to the keyboard a change occurs. Intent is transformed into received meaning, words and technical terms are given standard spellings, acronyms are decoded and perhaps expanded, syntax is verified and corrected, punctuation is inserted, proper nouns are capitalized, and if possible, ambiguities are resolved. As mastery of technical terminology is essential for professionals of every discipline, so mastery of techinical vocabularies has become necessary for the administrative assistant and transcriptionist who must forge a quality document on behalf of the author.

This partnership that harnesses the skills of two people to produce a document for broader use relies on a simple technology - dictation equipment and its counterpart, transcription equipment. Whether digitally recorded audio, or analog tape equipment is used, it is the division of labor that makes it work. To this end, Office Electronics Online offers Dictaphone, Lanier, Olympus and Sanyo dictation and transcription equipment for medical transcription, legal transcription, business communication, court reporting, writers, insurance professionals, and others, all at substantial discount. For details and pricing of available products please click on a brand logo.