Dictate from your desk, your car or a client’s office. AI-assisted transcription comes back in minutes, properly formatted, recognising legal terminology, and lands directly in your case file in LEAP, Clio or Actionstep.
Less typing. More billable hours. Lower document-creation cost.
Industry research published by Philips puts dictation at around seven times faster than typing. For a fee-earner producing 4 pages of structured legal text, that’s the difference between an hour and a half of typing and a five-minute dictation, a result actually reported by a French law firm using SpeechLive.
Multiply that across a 10-fee-earner practice and the recovered time is significant.
Per Philips’ own benchmarking, dictating case notes, briefs and correspondence is roughly seven times faster than typing the same text. Fee-earners get hours back per week.
Philips’ published business case shows dictation can reduce document-creation overhead by up to 93% versus paying a fee-earner, or a secretary, to type from scratch.
Recordings are transcribed automatically by SpeechLive’s AI and routed to the right secretary, fee-earner or matter, without anyone manually moving files around.
SpeechLive’s AI Assistant runs in a dedicated, isolated processing environment on Microsoft Azure. Recordings and transcripts are auto-deleted after processing and never used to train AI models, a hard requirement for any tool touching client data.
The integrated speech-to-text engine turns voice into structured, properly punctuated text. It recognises legal terminology and adapts over time to your firm’s vocabulary, so manual editing drops dramatically.
One-click style adjustment. Take a rough dictation and turn it into a formal letter to opposing counsel, or a friendlier client update, without rewriting from scratch. Meaning preserved, tone changed.
Long client meeting? Dictate a 20-minute summary on the drive home and let the AI Assistant turn it into a structured note for the matter file: bullet points, action items, follow-ups, all extracted automatically.
Need pure dictation accuracy? SpeechLive integrates with Dragon Legal Anywhere for firms that want the deepest legal vocabulary and continuous learning per fee-earner. Initial IT can deploy and tune Dragon as part of your dictation rollout.
SpeechLive runs everywhere your fee-earners do. Desktop, mobile, browser, in court, on a train, pick whichever surface is closest.
Use a Philips SpeechMike Premium at your desk, a SpeechAir on the road, or the SpeechLive app on your iPhone or Android. Record once. SpeechLive handles the upload securely.
The dictation is transcribed by SpeechLive’s AI Assistant in minutes, tagged with the matter and routed to the right secretary or back to you for a quick check before it goes out.
Dictations link automatically to the matter file in Actionstep via the official Philips integration, and into LEAP / Clio via Initial IT’s configured workflows. No manual filing.
Your support team finishes documents in minutes (formatting, proof-reading, sending) instead of typing them from scratch. Recovered time goes into client-facing work.
Indicative, based on Philips’ published 7×-faster figure and a conservative assumption that each fee-earner currently spends 2 hours per day producing written work that could instead be dictated. Your actual numbers depend on your matter mix and current workflow.
Recovered from typing into client-facing or strategic work. Across 10 fee-earners that’s well over 100 hours back into the firm, every week.
Philips’ own business case puts the document-creation cost reduction at up to 93%. The bigger the document, the bigger the saving.
Letters out the same day, not next week. Better client experience and a real edge over firms still typing everything from scratch.
SpeechLive is built around what a law firm’s compliance officer and data protection officer actually need to be able to evidence: end-to-end encryption in transit and at rest, hosted on Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure, processed in a dedicated isolated environment per tenant, and automatically deleted after use.
Initial IT will help you produce the supplier-due-diligence pack your PI insurer or institutional clients ask for, and tie SpeechLive in cleanly with the rest of your Microsoft 365 retention, DLP and access-control rules.
We supply, configure and asset-tag everything, and roll it out in a way that won’t disrupt your fee-earning week.
The industry standard for desk-based dictation. USB or wireless, built-in microphone array, programmable function buttons. Best for fee-earners who do most dictation in the office.
Android-based dedicated recorder. Records straight into SpeechLive over Wi-Fi. Built for fee-earners constantly between court, client meetings and the office.
Free with every SpeechLive licence. Records on iPhone or Android, uploads automatically. Useful for occasional dictation or as a backup when the SpeechMike is at the office.
Per-person, monthly subscription. Different tiers cover dictation only, dictation plus AI Assistant transcription, and Enterprise (with Dragon Legal Anywhere). Initial IT will spec the right combination for your firm and procure the licences as part of your monthly fee.
Yes. SpeechLive has a native integration with Actionstep, announced as an official partnership with Philips. For LEAP and Clio, Initial IT configures the workflow and integration so dictations land in the right matter without manual filing.
Very accurate for standard legal correspondence and case notes. Accuracy improves over time as the system learns your firm’s vocabulary, names and standard phrases. For the most demanding deep-vocabulary use cases (e.g. complex medical-negligence work) we’ll layer in Dragon Legal Anywhere.
Yes. SpeechLive runs on Microsoft Azure with end-to-end encryption, tenant-isolated processing, and auto-deletion of recordings and transcripts after processing. Your data is never used to train AI models. We’ll include the supplier-due-diligence pack as part of the rollout.
Typical timeline is 2–4 weeks. We start with a pilot for 2–3 fee-earners and their secretaries, configure the workflow against your case-management system, then roll out to the rest of the firm with short training sessions. Most fee-earners are productive on day one.
Yes. Philips offers a free trial of SpeechLive. We’ll set you up with a working environment, hardware to evaluate, and a configured workflow so the trial reflects what live use would look like, not just a demo.
Dictation is one piece of a bigger picture. For the full view of how we look after technology for law firms, read our guide to IT support for law firms.
Book a 30-minute SpeechLive demo with Andy. We’ll show you a live dictation, a live AI transcript and how it lands in your case-management system.
Prefer to talk now? Call 01543 524594 or email hello@initialit.co.uk.
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