What are the benefits of digital recorders over tape-based recorders?
Digital dictation is all about flexibility and portability. Instead of dictating a report into a tape machine and having to wait until you are next in the office to hand it in to be typed you can e-mail digital voice files. Digital files lend themselves to work sharing and easy distribution and organisation instead of having one tape containing lots of letters, each letter can be its own file. The typist knows how many letters are to be typed and how long each is. The relatively small size of the files makes them easily moved about. Maybe you are keen to promoted more flexible working. Why not even outsource some of it? As each machine can be given a unique ID, people can send files over a network into a central resource but all the files remain easily identifiable.
