Do you want to join our Training Team - AT Trainer & Dyslexia Strategy coach required

Due to our recent business expansion, we are looking for 2 new members of staff to join our team. Details are below.

Assistive Technology & Dyslexia Strategy Trainer

Freedom of Speech Ltd have a collective experience of over 40 years installing, training and supporting speech recognition solutions & assistive technology for a wide variety of companies across the UK who want to improve their document turnaround time, staff efficiency or to enable disabled staff to operate a PC efficiently. We also provide one-to-one tuition and assistance to clients with learning disabilities such as dyslexia and dyspraxia. Areas in which we may assist them include teaching organisational skills, memory strategies, time management, planning work schedules, literacy skills / reading skills / writing skills, confidence building & computer skills.

We are looking to expand with a new Assistive Technology Trainer & a new Dyslexia Strategy Trainer to join our team.

As an Assistive Technology Trainer you will be responsible for providing one to one (and group) assistive technology training (mainly in Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Texthelp Read and Write) to our clients based around the UK (mainly in locations north of London and in the Midlands region).

Experience has shown us that good communication skills and the ability to adapt to any situation are paramount to being a proficient software trainer.

Have you any experience in training or teaching?  Ideally the candidate would have experience in basic Windows applications. This role would suit a motivated, professional person with good organisational skills and a calm manner. A person who enjoys a busy and proactive work environment.

Full product training and support will be offered to the successful candidate.

Skills required
Desire working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel & Outlook) together with a good telephone manner and confident/friendly communication skills.

Assistive technology software knowledge/training experience including Dragon NaturallySpeaking (speech recognition solutions), Read and Write (text-to-speech solutions) and SparkSpace (mind mapping solutions).

As a Dyslexia Strategy Trainer you will be responsible for providing one to one sessions concentrating on the client’s specific needs, with the aim of removing any necessary barriers to learning and enhance their strengths. You will determine the clients individual learning needs & teach them in a way that they can learn from.

Skills required
Recognised professional dyslexia training qualification in providing training courses for learners with specific learning difficulties. Experience in the creation and delivery of user-specific programmes of one-to-one tuition to students with specific learning difficulties.

Job package
We are looking to offer a good salary (dependant on experience), company car allowance & private healthcare insurance. Additional benefits include laptop, mobile phone, satellite navigation & company/travel expenses.

Working week
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm (some earlier starting/ending times may be required dependant on training bookings and client location). You will travel from your home to each client but will be expected to attend occasional meetings at our head office in Worthing, West Sussex.

If you are interested in either of these challenging new roles, please send us your CV (via post or e-mail), your current salary and confirmation that you have a full, clean driving license to: James Kirk (jameskirk@freedom-speech.co.uk)

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Whitepaper - "From Overload to Burnout. What Clinicians think."

Results of an extensive survey with healthcare professionals from across Europe and Australia.

Download whitepaper now via this link

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many abrupt changes to healthcare practices and processes—adding additional pressures to an already struggling system. With clinician burnout on the rise, it is important to understand how these new challenges are affecting clinicians in order to offer critical relief and help them take better care of their patients—and themselves.

To learn more, please download the whitepaper.

1. How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected clinicians’ workload and wellbeing?

2. What percentage of clinicians report feeling burnt out and what factors are driving this?

3. How can AI technology help reduce these burdens?

To discuss speech recognition solutions (cloud and desktop) for Healthcare Professionals contact us via our website or call 01903 263007

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Improve reading and writing confidence - Read&Write FREE 30 day trial

Read&Write lets everyone read, write and express themselves more confidently and independently.

The easy-to-use toolbar makes documents, files and web pages more accessible. Read&Write is a big confidence booster for anyone who needs a little support with their reading and writing, at school or in the workplace. And its friendly literacy features help English Language Learners, as well as people with learning difficulties or requiring dyslexia tools.

From hearing emails or documents read out loud to text prediction, picture dictionaries, summary highlighters and a grammar, spelling and confusable words checker, Read&Write makes lots of everyday literacy tasks simpler, quicker and more accurate.

One subscription. One sign in. Any device.

Enjoy the benefits of Read&Write on Windows PCs, Macs, Google, iPad and Android tablets. One simple subscription lets users sign in on any device. So it’s great for students and employees working at home, at school or on the move. Everyone in your school, college or organisation can try all the great features of Read&Write absolutely free for 30 days. After this trial period, subscribe for unrestricted access to all our exciting premium features.

You can use Read&Write's premium features for 30 days for free. Upgrade at any time and unlock access to more than 80 work-friendly premium features across six platforms.

Contact us to arrange a free 30 day trial and to discuss pricing, training and support.

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Independent study reveals speech recognition could save Financial Service businesses over £40,000 a year per employee

Deploying speech recognition within a financial services business could save over £40,000 per employee each year in terms of productivity gains, new figures have found.

The independent review - commissioned by Nuance Communications and carried out by the Financial Technology Research Centre (FTRC) - provided a comprehensive analysis of the use-cases and practical applications of Dragon speech recognition software within a financial services organisation.

The FTRC analysis and testing found that - based on a full working day of 480 minutes, or eight hours - on average, 205 minutes of tasks are performed in which speech recognition cannot be used. These are areas such as a client meetings and product or provider research.

However, speech recognition can be used for over half (275 minutes) of tasks, and this is where significant cost savings can be applied. By applying speech recognition to tasks such as responding to emails, writing up meeting notes, preparing research notes and the writing of client communications and recommendation letters; organisations could reduce the time spent on these processes from 275 minutes to just 73 minutes - a time saving of 202 minutes.

This 202 minutes – or £168.08, based on a “modest salary” of £50 per hour for a financial planner or paraplanner – equates to over £40,000 per staff member per annum.

“Most individuals can speak approximately 120 to 150 words per minute, yet on average even a good typist can only reach around 40 words per minute. This clear gap underlines the potential for speech recognition tech to support our productivity, typing at the speed we speak,” said Mark Geremia, VP and GM for Dragon Professional and Consumer, Nuance.

“This study further reinforces the productivity gains organisations can unlock by deploying such technology – and then offering training and encouragement for employees embracing such new ways of working to deliver better results, faster,” Geremia added.

Citing benefits including the ability to work in an offline environment, integration with third-party software, robust data security and its ability to support those with spelling and grammar issues, Nuance’s Dragon speech recognition software can generate significant savings by reducing daily tasks carried out in a financial adviser’s office by over 40%.

“Our analysis has shown that by deploying speech recognition software to a financial adviser’s business processes, there are significant time savings to be made, in turn allowing for this time to be re-purposed to service more clients and create additional income,” the report states.

Nuance’s Dragon is a next-generation speech engine leveraging deep learning technology, so users can dictate and transcribe faster and more accurately than ever before, and spend less time on documentation and more time on activities that boost the bottom line.

Contact us for further information about speech recognition solutions.

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Red Dot Award 2019 winner: Olympus DS-9500

The professional DS-9500 digital dictation recorder provides simple wireless (Wi-Fi) transfer via E-mail and an advanced two-microphone system for noisy environments. These features are allowing for an effective workflow from speech to text as well as more flexibility and freedom in everyday work. The Red Dot Award jury states: “The portable DS-9500 dictation device presents well thought-trough functionality and innovative Wi-Fi connectivity in order to provide effective workflow support.”

The Red Dot Design Award is not the only prestigious award that the DS-9500 has won recently. It was furthermore honoured with a “Great Product” label by the Danish hardware test platform Tweak and received a test score of 9,5 out of 10 points.*

* https://tweakreviews.com/speaker/olympus-ds-9500-digital-voice-recorder-review

About the Red Dot Design Awards

The Red Dot Award Product Design is one of the world’s largest design competitions. In 2019, designers and manufacturers from 55 countries entered more than 5,500 products in the competition. The international jury comprises experienced experts from different disciplines and has been convening for more than 60 years in order to select the year’s best designs. During an adjudication process that spans several days, they try out the products, discuss them and ultimately reach a well-founded decision regarding the design quality of the entries. True to the motto “In search of good design and innovation”, their assessment focuses on criteria such as the level of innovation, functionality, formal quality, longevity and ergonomics.

Contact us for further information and pricing.

Clinicians, not technology limitations, should dictate the patient story.

With Nuance Dragon® Medical One, your staff can stay productive whether they’re at the workstation or anywhere else they need to be. Our clinical speech recognition provides a consistent experience at the hospital, clinic, office, home, and on the road.

The world is your workstation

Using a secure desktop app, clinicians can use their voice to securely capture the patient story more naturally, efficiently and on their terms. Dragon Medical One provides a consistent and personalised clinical documentation experience that spans solutions, platforms, devices, and physical locations.

For the organisation at large, the power of this cloud platform means access to data. These insights help monitor adoption trends, ensure user efficiency, help inform decisions, and reap the benefits of compatibility with Nuance and partner workflow enhancements.

The best speech recognition in the world... in the cloud

Always available: Dragon Medical One is designed for speed, accuracy, and flexibility with personalized vocabularies and templates that can be accessed and shared across the widest range of devices in the industry.

Budget-friendly: Affordable subscription-based pricing with little up-front capital investment.

Easy to install and maintain: No complex configurations, installation options that work with the infrastructure you already have, and automatic updates mean less work for your IT staff and less hassle for your clinicians.

No speech profile training: Dragon Medical One requires no voice profile training and includes accent detection and automatic microphone calibration. Dragon Medical One creates profiles that continue to adapt and improve over time to ensure an optimal clinician experience from the start.

Limitless productivity: Give your users the ability to speak freely and as much as they like. With Dragon Medical One, there are no per-user limits so clinicians can stay productive anywhere and focus on the unique patient story rather than usage limits.

Healthcare compliant: Your speech-related data is communicated over 256-bit encryption channels using TLS protocols to ensure end-to-end security.

Dragon Medical One is all about portability, personalisation, access, insights, and compatibility.

Portability to work at any workstation with the Dragon Medical One Desktop Application.
Compatible with all leading EHRs, and designed with virtualisation in mind, the Dragon Medical One desktop app provides secure, accurate, and portable cloud-based clinical speech recognition across a wide range of Windows® devices.

Personalisation.
Dragon Medical One puts the power in the clinician’s hand with the ability to personalise their experience and gain access to new features, products, and services as they emerge.

Flexibility to use your smartphone as a microphone – Nuance PowerMic Mobile.
Turn your smartphone (iOS and Android) into a secure, wireless microphone to enhance clinician productivity and convenience when working with Dragon Medical One

Insights abound with Dragon Medical Analytics.
Dragon Medical Analytics gives system administrators access to individual and site-wide usage metrics and trends so they can optimise clinician efficiency, productivity, and workflows. With Dragon Medical Analytics, organisations can maximise their Nuance investments and make more informed decisions.

Compliant HSCN certified Nuance cloud.
Dragon Medical One is based on a healthcare compliant hosting infrastructure supporting the availability, business continuity, and security demands of the NHS.

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Put it all together, and it’s more than just a cloud platform—it’s a way to redefine the clinician’s relationship with technology.

To learn more about Dragon Medical One, please call 01903 263007 or contact us via our contact page

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Dragon Pro Group or Dragon Pro Individual...which one suits your needs?

We often get asked by our customers about the main feature/benefit differences between ‘Dragon Professional Group 15’ and ‘Dragon Professional Individual 15’ - we thought we’d put a simple 1 page guide together compare their specific feature sets.

Download the PDF guide here and feel free to use our contact page to ask further questions.

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