RadDictate Chrome Extension

1 · Install & sign in

Install it from the Chrome Web Store — one click, and it keeps itself updated:

1. Open the RadDictate listing on the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome.
2. Click the puzzle-piece icon in the toolbar and pin RadDictate.

Click the icon and sign in with your email and password. Signing in also unlocks your end-to-end encrypted history — the same one-password rule as everywhere else (the mobile guide, §2, explains why the email reset is destructive).

2 · Dictating into your RIS

The golden rule: text lands where your cursor is.

1. In your RIS, click into the box you want the report in.
2. Open the popup and press ⏺ START DICTATION (or just press F8 / Numpad + — see §3).
3. Dictate. Finish. The structured report is inserted at your cursor — mid-sentence if that's where you clicked.

On reporting systems with separate fields (e.g. APEX-style forms), RadDictate goes one better: findings are inserted into the findings box and the conclusion into the conclusion box, automatically.

Also on the REPORT tab: 📁 UPLOAD AUDIO transcribes an existing recording instead of live dictation.

3 · The on-page pill & F8

While dictating, a small floating pill appears on the page — your recording status (REC / PAUSED / NO SIGNAL) and controls, draggable anywhere. You don't need the popup open while you dictate.

• F8 (or Numpad +) cycles start → pause → resume — hands stay on the keyboard, works even inside the RIS's own dialogs.
• From the pill you can pause, listen back, overwrite a slip (the part being replaced is shown before you confirm), or DISCARD.
• If transcription fails mid-flow, the pill offers RETRY and SAVE — your audio isn't lost.

4 · Dictate on phone

No microphone on the workstation — or one you wouldn't put near your mouth? Press 📱 DICTATE ON PHONE. Your phone (with the mobile app signed in) pops up a record prompt; you dictate on the phone, and the report arrives back in the browser and inserts exactly like live dictation — same cursor-target and findings/conclusion split rule as §2. The result travels end-to-end encrypted.

5 · Grab text & proofread

🔍 GRAB TEXT & PROOFREAD reads the report already on the page and gives it a second read: laterality slips ("right" in findings, "left" in conclusion), anatomic-site mismatches, internal contradictions. Issues are flagged and a suggested corrected version is offered alongside — nothing on the page is changed for you; you review and copy only what you accept. Use it on dictated reports, typed reports, anyone's reports.

6 · History: copy & transfer

The HISTORY tab lists your end-to-end encrypted reports from every device — the study you dictated on the phone in the car is here waiting. Tap a report to open it right there:

• 📋 COPY — full text to the clipboard.
• ➡ TRANSFER — the good one: inserts the report into the RIS exactly like live dictation, including the findings/conclusion split (see §2 for exactly when the split does vs. doesn't happen). Click into the target box first, then transfer.
• ← BACK — back to the list.

History auto-deletes after 14 days by default; the retention setting (1–60 days) lives on this tab.

7 · Audio backups (REC)

The 🎙 REC tab keeps local copies of your dictation audio — filter RAW / COMPACTED, export with 📦 ARCHIVE, remove with 🗑 DELETE.

8 · Templates (TPL)

Same templates, everywhere: the 📋 TPL tab syncs with your account, so a template built here works on the phone and desktop too.

• ⭐ LOAD MY STARTER TEMPLATES — your organization's set if it has one, else the built-in defaults.
• A template is Name + Body; say the name while dictating to invoke it. Extra spoken triggers live under Advanced.
• 📥 IMPORT JSON / 📤 EXPORT — the same file format as mobile and desktop.

Two worked examples

A straightforward one. Create a template named "Normal Chest" with the body of a standard normal chest X-ray report, and add "CXR normal" as an Advanced trigger. Say either "normal chest" or "CXR normal" at the start of a dictation, and the AI builds the report on that template instead of transcribing from scratch.

When something you say doesn't fit. Say you dictate onto a template but mention a finding the template has no place for. The AI won't guess where to put it; instead it pulls that piece out and shows it in a persistent toast with a COPY button, so nothing you said is lost — copy it and add it to the report by hand. This is the honest answer to "I dictated something extra and it didn't make it into the template" — deliberate safety behavior, not a bug.

9 · Troubleshooting

• "The text went to the wrong place." The report lands at the last cursor position — click into the correct box before starting (or before TRANSFER).
• "I got signed out." One extension per account by default; signing in on another PC signs this one out. Ask your admin about device limits.
• "Chrome warns about developer-mode extensions." Only happens with the manual install. The fix: remove it and install from the Web Store instead — sign in again and your history re-syncs.
• Updating a manual install: download the new zip from the setup page, unzip over the same folder, then hit the refresh icon on chrome://extensions. (Web Store installs update themselves.)
• F8 does nothing on a page: click once anywhere in the page first (Chrome only delivers keys to focused pages), then F8.

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