Dictation and transcription are different things

Rhazes has two ways of turning speech into text, and picking the wrong one loses the recording of a whole consultation.

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Dictation

The microphone beside the message box. You speak, and what you said appears as text in the box for you to edit and send.

Nothing is stored as a recording. It is a faster way of typing, and that is all it is. See Dictating into the Rhazes message box.

Transcription

The transcribe button. This records a whole consultation, keeps the audio, and produces a transcript you can read, edit and turn into a note with one of your templates.

This is the one to reach for when the recording itself matters. See Recording a consultation in Rhazes.

Which to use

Dictating a sentence into the box is dictation. Recording a patient encounter you intend to document afterwards is transcription. The second keeps the audio and the transcript; the first keeps neither.

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