Drive Higher Productivity While Minimizing Complaince Risk

You Talk and It Types
With speech recognition, investment advisors can turn their voices into text with up to 99% accuracy using virtually any Windows-based application — including Microsoft® Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, Outlook®, and popular contact management systems like Salesforce, ACT!, Siebel, and Goldmine. The transcribed text appears on the screen three times faster than most people type, dramatically speeding the creation of meeting notes, confirmations, and emails.

Get More Done in Less Time
Each financial services organization, and even the individuals within each organization, use speech recognition for different purposes depending on their responsibilities, workflow, preferences, and the applications they use as part of their jobs. Speech recognition users include investment advisors, account managers, client service associates, compliance professionals, transcriptionists, assistants and other support staff as well as mobile professionals and people with disabilities. They use the software to make it faster and easier to enter meeting notes into their CRM; create and format documents such as agreements, newsletters, and client correspondence; manage email; streamline the transcription process for larger firms with support staff; and automate repetitive or multi-step tasks using simple voice commands like “save, print and send document” or “insert signature” for increased efficiency.

Navigate Applications by Voice
Dragon enables users to command and control the computer desktop by voice. Users simply speak standard commands that prompt the computer to perform an action. Many applications can be more effective and easier to use when deployed in conjunction with Dragon. Searches, queries, and form-filling are all faster to perform by voice than by keyboarding. Document management, document assembly/automation, and CRM software programs are all highly conducive to control by speech. Tasks such as text and data entry can be completed by voice in most of the programs without any customization.

Manage Email
Since managing email takes up an increasing amount of everyone’s workday, speech recognition software can be used to create, navigate, send, and respond to email by voice using popular programs like Microsoft Outlook® or Lotus Notes. What’s more, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional contains text-to-speech technology that allows users to have the software read text aloud, which enables them to complete other tasks while listening to their email or documents.

Consolidate Multi-Step Processes Into a Single Voice Command
Repetitive tasks, such as CRM text entry, can be significantly accelerated by using speech. In many cases, users who are unfamiliar with complex software programs are more comfortable “telling” the computer what to do rather than trying to master the interface. Macros can be created to enable users to go from field to field by voice, or to perform a sequence of keystrokes or mouse movements. Macros can yield productivity benefits for even the fastest typists because they reduce time-consuming, multi-step tasks to a simple voice command.

Increase Productivity on the Go
Since investment advisors spend a significant amount at prospect and client meetings — whether at their office, the inves¬tor’s home, or over lunch or dinner — Dragon offers an option to capture meeting notes from anywhere, at any time using a digital voice recorder. Immediately following a meeting, an advisor can dictate notes into any Nuance-certified handheld device for automatic transcription when they connect to their PC back at home or at the office.

"In our work with financial advisors and brokers/dealers, we have found more and more people struggling to keep up with the amount of paperwork they must complete on a regular basis…No wonder advisors are spending time on compliance issues. Of course, if they are spending time on compliance issues, they are not meeting with a client — which means it is going to eat into production, sales, and the bottom line." Katherine Vessenes, President, Vestment Advisors, Inc.

"I am a financial professional. I manage money and am a CPA. As such I am subject to rules and regulations of several governing bodies such as AICPA, FINRA, and the US Securities and Exchange Comission. As a result of the scandals or Madoff, Worldcom, Enron, Healthsouth and others, regulation has become an increasingly expensive and business threatening prospect for smaller companies such as mine, (I manage only $130 million). Today documentation of conversations and meetings is absolutely imperative in my profession to demonstrate to regulatory agents as well as potential plaintiff attorneys, that clients were informed and agreed to procedures and recommendations. About ten years ago I found handwritten notes inadequate because they could be constructed after the fact, left out anecdotal information, and were typically too brief. With Dragon, I dictate in 30 seconds to 1 minute, what would take me 5 to 30 minutes to write. I am able to include anecdotes that provide "realism" indicating authenticity and spark my memory in subsequent meetings. I am careful to make sure my clients and regulators see these notes and their breadth so that there is assurance to them that I am paying attention and acting with due diligence. Without Dragon, I would feel significantly less secure in my business. The latest version is simply incredible. No training and virtually error free." Patrick C., Ph.D., CPA/PFS

"I’ve found Dragon to be a great help for increasing productivity, reducing the time it takes me to enter notes on client conversations into our CRM solution by 1/10 to 1/5. I look forward to continuing to use Dragon and getting even more proficient with it." John Catalano, investment advisor

"I am an independent financial adviser and have been using Dragon for some years, it has had a profound affect on my life, as it speeds up processing of mundane tasks, enabling me to concentrate instead on more productive areas. In my job even the shortest question can have an extremely long answer, and the ability to produce printed text in the same format as I talk saves me hours each week, improves my service to my clients and greatly increases my productivity. Especially impressive is that I can enter into a long and detailed explanations in my e-mails, without messing about with typing, dictation machines and/or depending on other members of staff. I can unreservedly say that my original investment in Dragon and subsequent upgrades has been repaid many thousands of times over. I would say to anybody contemplating using Dragon for the first time, don't wait a minute longer to have your life transformed!" – Ralph P.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Financial Services
More and more financial services companies are using speech recognition to address their compliance challenges while boosting productivity and protecting against costly litigation and fines. With Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Nuance, you get the speed, accuracy and ease of use of the world’s best-selling speech recognition software for the PC — without having to change current business processes or existing information systems like CRM applications.