1 · Install & sign in
RadScribe is provided by your administrator (a packaged installer is on its way; until then your admin sets it up). Sign in with the same email and password as everywhere else — it also unlocks your end-to-end encrypted history, and the unlock is remembered securely on this Windows account so you aren't retyping it daily.
On launch the app checks for updates: a banner means an update is available; a blocking notice means your version is too old to continue and needs the new build first.
2 · Dictating
The status line tells you where things stand — "Cloud idle — press START to dictate" means ready.
- Click into the target application where the report should go.
- Press START and dictate; press again to stop.
- The structured report is transferred into the active window — if the target application blocks programmatic paste, RadScribe falls back to typing it in keystroke-by-keystroke.
Prefer the clipboard? The report is also available to copy — the status line will tell you: "Copied — now Ctrl+V into APEX."
3 · Dictate on phone
Press DICTATE ON PHONE — your phone (mobile app signed in) prompts you to record; the finished report comes back to the desktop and saves to your history, end-to-end encrypted in transit. Change your mind with CANCEL PHONE REQUEST; an unanswered request times out on its own.
4 · Check report
The report check is the desktop's second read: it scans the current report for internal contradictions — laterality, anatomic sites — and walks you through each flagged occurrence for review. It flags; it never silently rewrites. When you accept the outcome you'll see "Checked report applied."
5 · Templates
The template manager mirrors the other clients: a template is Name + Body, and saying the name while dictating invokes it (extra spoken triggers optional). Import/Export use the same JSON file as mobile and the extension, and Load starter templates pulls your organization's set when one is published.
6 · Cloud history
Your encrypted report history from every device is available here too: open a report, LOAD INTO EDITOR to work with it, copy it, or transfer it into the active window like a fresh dictation. The same cloud-wide rules apply as on the other clients — clearing history clears it everywhere.
7 · Transcribe a file
Have a recording already? Point RadScribe at the audio file and it transcribes it like a live dictation — useful for a dictaphone file or a colleague's recording. (Doing this in bulk every day? That's exactly what RadTranscribe is for.)
8 · Troubleshooting
- "Cloud mode needs sign-in." Your session expired — sign in again with the usual email + password.
- Nothing arrives in the target app. Make sure the target window was the active one when the transfer fired; some locked-down apps only accept the typing fallback, which is slower but arrives.
- Device limit. One desktop per account by default — a new PC displaces the old one; your admin can raise limits.
- Hospital proxy. RadScribe understands corporate NTLM proxies and re-authenticates on its own; persistent proxy errors are worth a line to your IT team (or to us).
- Update notice won't go away. Install the newer build your admin provides — blocking notices mean the old version can't safely continue.
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