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Smartype and Inscribe - anon

Posted: Mar 18, 2011

I have just accepted a position that uses Inscribe. I have been using Smartype for 4 years on the account I work on in MS Word. I've been searching for 2 days trying to find out if Smartype will work in Inscribe and have found next to nothing on the 2 programs together (lots of info for Inscribe alone and little on Smartype alone). The company said they do not know if Smartype will work with Inscribe. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance for any info...I'm so stressed :(

technically it will work, but - EmdatQA

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it will create other problems you may not want to deal with.

With Emdat open, click on the Word icon just above the text entry area. You are taken into Word to be able to transcribe. Great, you think! Of course you can link Smartype to be able to transcribe. Great, again you think! But, you can't control the voice file. You have to instead use Express Scribe as your voice file player. That is great, too, you think.

But when using Express Scribe, you may get confused about which voice file goes with which report in Emdat and could send in the wrong text with a job.

Or because Word adds formating not supported in Emdat, you may later find out that the document locks you up for hours and you have to get Help Desk to unlock you. Or it could be that with Express Scribe open when you complete a document in Emdat, the document actually gets invalidated (deleted) in Emdat and your boss wants to know why you did that.

clear as mud, huh? :)

So the short reply is: Yes, you can use Smartype through Word in Emdat.

But the long reply is: It isn't a good idea to use it because of the problems associated with using it.

You can import your Smartype files into either Shorthand or Instant Text or some other abbreviation program that doesn't have these types of problems associated with using it.

Thank you - anon

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"Clear as mud?" LOL, you did clear that up for me quite a bit. I will not be using Smartype. I've heard of Instant Text, which is way too expensive for me at the current time. It'll probably 3 months before I have enough to get it. So, what is this Shorthand you speak of? Is it free/cheap? Are there any drawbacks with using Shorthand in Emdat? Smartype has a bar at the bottom that shows the abbreviation you are typing and similar ones letting you choose as you type. Does Shorthand do this as well. Sometimes I have a heck of a time remembering the abbreviations I make.

Shorthand - EmdatQA

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has a 30-day free trial period. If you want to buy it, there are options for paying monthly (about $10 a month), or yearly (about $100), or unlimited use (about $200). Look into it to see how easy it would be to import your ST entries or call Help Desk at Emdat to see what they can do to convert your Smartype entries to a text (.txt) file to import into Shorthand.

If you wanted to pay for Shorthand until you were ready to switch to Instant Text, that is an option, too.

good luck!

A few clicks in Instant Text - import your Smartype list

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Save time and money. You can download Instant Text and use the fully functional trial version for a month to see if it is worth the money.

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