[X4U] Transcription, document management (part deux)

[Jim Robertson]

We have an Asante VPN router in our office. Is it possible to configure this
so that if we put our transcribed reports (MS Word docs) on a computer on
our LAN we can on an impromptu basis configure VPN sessions from PCs in the
hospitals; i.e., is it possible to create VPN tunnels on an ad hoc basis?
When I bought the router a few years ago my understanding was that dedicated
hardware was needed on both ends to create a VPN session.

Does anyone know of transcription software that our Mac-loving
transcriptionist could install on her computer so that we could still
dictate into the phone and she'd receive digital sound files? I've looked at
"Express Dictate", but it requires a Windows computer with a sound board and
special modem to accept the incoming analog data and convert it to digital
sound files. I suppose we could create a server on our LAN to do this, but
we'd likely need to add another POTS phone line so that more than one of us
could dictate at the same time. "Express Dictate" can handle LAN traffic
from multiple computers if we have VOIP, but we're not interested in signing
up for new telephone service at the moment.

One problem with the simplest implementation of "Express Dictate" is that if
we dictate into our computers or into digital recorders, the sound files get
divided into chunks that can be sent to the transcriptionist as email
attachments. I'd prefer to avoid that hassle. How difficult would it be
(assuming we could create the Windows server to handle the analog/digital
conversion) to use that computer as an ftp server from which our
transcriptionist could download the sound files to her own computer at her
home?

Anyone have recommendations for other Mac-friendly transcription software?

Thanks so much,

Jim Robertson
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