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Pedal and Express Scribe - Soos


Posted: Jun 17, 2012

I have a pedal that I used with Express Scribe about 5 years ago. It says IN-BMG on the bottom. I worked independently for a local office using old school dictation with a tape player so packed up my pedal. I just recently started using Express Scribe again and HATE using the key prompts and want use of my foot pedal but can't get it working! I hate to buy a new one when this one would probably work if I knew the magic words.  Please advise if anyone knows how to make it work! It does NOT work on the set up wizard that comes with the free version of ES.

I know this is a late answer on this but will try to help. - IAMT

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I had the same issues with my foot pedal while using the program for testing. Got to tools, options, and select controller tab. See if your foot pedal is there in the pull-down and if not, do "select controller type manually. There are tabs for other things also under tools, options that will let you set up the R, L and backup timing. Hope this helps.

If it does not, I googled something like "Setup for footpedal in Express Scribe" and got some good information.


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