Vero's dictation is tuned for clinical work, including medical terms, drug names, dosages, and anatomy. This page covers how dictation works and the habits that improve transcription quality.
Starting and Stopping Dictation
Click Record in the recording bar at the bottom of the encounter to start. Click it again to pause or stop.
Need to change mic or language first? Click the waveform/settings control on the left side of the recording bar to open settings. The same panel shows the live transcript.
Use the keyboard shortcut
Cmd+Option+Ron Mac orCtrl+Alt+Ron Windows to toggle recording.If you stay silent for 2 minutes, Vero automatically stops dictation to avoid recording dead air.
Words appear as you speak in the live transcript. Interim results may firm up a second or two later once Vero has heard the full phrase.
Medical-Tuned for English
When your voice language is set to English, Vero uses a model tuned for medical audio, including medication names, conditions, anatomical terms, and common abbreviations.
Voice Commands
When dictating in English, you can speak common punctuation and formatting commands:
Say | You get |
period / full stop | . |
comma | , |
question mark | ? |
colon | : |
new line | Line break |
new paragraph | New paragraph |
Most of the time Vero adds punctuation automatically. Voice commands are most useful for line breaks and new paragraphs.
Tips for Cleaner Transcripts
Speak in complete phrases. Natural pauses help Vero determine sentence boundaries.
Pause briefly between sentences.
Speak at a normal conversational pace.
Say drug and patient names deliberately.
Reduce room noise when possible.
Use the built-in microphone unless audio quality is poor. Most laptop and computer microphones work well for standard in-person recording. A dedicated USB microphone can help in a noisy or large room. A headset is mainly useful for Telehealth Mode or if speaker audio is feeding back into the microphone.
Add common mis-hearings to Replace. Open Account → Preferences → Text replacements and add recurring corrections.
How Long Can I Dictate?
There is no fixed maximum session length. Vero stops only if it detects 2 minutes of silence. If you need to pause, stop recording and resume when ready.
What Happens to My Voice?
Audio is streamed to Vero's transcription service to be converted into text, then discarded. It is not used to train Vero's proprietary AI models. For more detail, see Privacy & Security.