Bighand Hub Quick Reference Guide for Authors

Modified on Tue, 23 Jan at 5:06 PM

To launch the Bighand Hub, double click the icon on your desktop.

You may be prompted to enter a username and password or you may be logged in automatically.

Creating a dictation

Click the Voice icon to start a new dictation. The Bighand Voice window is displayed:

The main panel enables you to control the recording, navigate through the dictation and insert more audio (if required).

The expandable Details tab allows you to enter key information about the dictation. You can choose a work type and enter a client and matter information which automatically titles the dictation and helps track work in Bighand.

Press record on your device or click on the Record button in the Bighand Voice window. Your device should light up to indicate it is recording.
Dictate into the microphone . If you notice the recording levels are going into the yellow or red boxes at the bottom of the window, you may need to adjust your recording level. This can be done under Settings.
Once this is done click Send. The dictation will be sent to the 'Work in Progress' folder where it can be worked on by a transcriber.

Adding a comment

The expandable Comments tab is used to add important notes against the recording. These comments are time stamped and appear as little triangular icons.

To add a comment:

Ensure the dictation is at the required point. In the illustration below, the dictation is at three seconds.

Click the speech icon which is located on the right hand side of the interface. This will display a comments box.

Click Add Reply type your description and click your cursor anywhere other than on the comment you are typing on. The triangle, highlighted in the illustration below is an indicator for the added comment.

Folders

Drafts	Contains dictations which are unfinished or have not yet been sent.
Outbox	In the event that network connection is unavailable you can still dictate and send but dictations will sit in the Outbox until connectivity is restored.
Work in Progress	This folder contains all your tasks which are either due to be worked on (pending) or currently being worked on (in progress).
Completed	Once a task has been marked as complete it moves into this folder and is visible for up to 7 days before being removed automatically.
Department	Tasks can be sent to a department folder and be picked up by a team of assistants who have access to that folder. It will depend on your configuration as to whether you can see departmental folder(s).

Bighand Voice Window

	Once you have finished your dictation, click this button to move it on to the next step in the workflow
	If you need to come back to your dictation at a later time, click this button to put it in the 'Drafts' folder. BigHand also auto-saves as you are dictating in order to prevent the loss of work.
	Use this button to change the workflow to which your dictation is being sent.
	Click this button to change the priority of your dictation.
	Should you need to insert extra audio into your dictation, click the INS button. This will turn green, as will the Record button and the Position Slider button. Remember to switch back to overwrite mode when you are done.

Configuring your recording device

Click the Settings icon

to display the Audio and Control devices window as shown in the illustration below. When you do this for the very first time, the voice detections settings, not the Settings window, is displayed.

On the Settings window, ensure the Audio and Control devices is displayed.

Ensure all three drop-down boxes are set to the recording device you are using and click Save.