Notes for previous releases can be found here:

https://download.speechmotion.com/installs/

 

 

This update includes several changes aimed to improve the user experience when installing and launching the Enterprise Client. The changes were focused to accommodate enterprise environments using Active Directory and the security policies used to manage their desktops.

 

 

What’s New in SpeechMotion 5.60
 SpeechMotion 5.50 build 21072100 for July 2021

 

Release Summary

 

Enterprise Client

·         Added: Foot pedal auto detect and preferred device option when multiple pedals are connected.

·         Changed: Passwords are no longer required to confirm document completion.

·         Changed: Logon changes.

·         Changed: Improved installers.

·         Changed: Elevated privileges are no longer required to install or run Enterprise Client.

·         Changed: Default installation path.

Workflow Server

·         Added: MTVIMP convert two channel audio on import.

·         Added: New email alert on Batch Distribution updates.

·         Added: new Custom-ADT import for fixed length files.

·         Added: Workflow Server custom installers.

·         Added: Single Sign On (SSO) support for Microsoft Azure AD with Enterprise Client.

 

Enterprise Client

Changed: Passwords are no longer required to confirm document completion.

When prompted to Complete & Send report, users are no longer asked for their password.

 

 

Added: Foot pedal auto detect and preferred device option when multiple pedals are connected.

A preferred pedal device can be selected when multiple devices are connected.

 

The Set preferred device option can be used when 2 transcription applications are running simultaneously and users want to control each of them with a different pedal.

 

When 2 or more pedals are connected, click the Next Pedal > button assign the next pedal.

 

 

Changed: Logon changes.

Several changes to the user interface was made when to the logon / updater.

 

·         No longer requires administrative / elevated privileges to launch.

·         UAC does not have to be disabled.

·         Users are not asked for a password until the second prompt after clicking Next.

·         Remember me will save your username and site code for subsequent launches.

·         Only one instance of the Logon can run at a time.

·         Logon warns users when Enterprise Client is already running – requiring them to manually close.

 

Users are asked for their password on the second prompt.

 

 

Changed: Improved installers.

Installers for the Enterprise Client have been updated to accommodate secure deployments in Active Directory environments when several users may share the same workstation.

 

The filename for the installer was changed and now include the build revision number of “5.6”.

 

 

The installer no longer asks the user for a installation location.

The location is now %localappdata%\SpeechMotion.

 

Existing installations in the previous default path c:\speechmotion will continue to work when updated however we recommend running the new installer to remove the old path and reinstall to the new.

 

When launching the new installer – it will notify the user when a previous installation was found and offer to uninstall it.

Uninstalling the previous version will remove the shortcut links to the old installation path.

 

The installations are now private to each user and not available to anyone else logging in.

 

Changed: Elevated privileges are no longer required to install or run Enterprise Client.

At installation and during runtime, elevated privileges or compatibility mode options are no longer necessary.

 

This is true regardless of installation path.

 

We recommend users disable Run as administrator If their current installation does so.

 

 

Changed: Default installation path.

When new users install the SpeechMotion Enterprise Client using the new 5.6 Installers. There are no options to change the installation path.

 

Files will be installed to the user’s %localappdata%\SpeechMotion path.

 

 

 

Workflow Server

Added: MTVIMP convert two channel audio on import.

Previously, an audio file with 2 channels would import into SpeechMotion without any errors but would not play in the player. 

 

Now converts voice audio files with 2 audio channels to 1 channel. 

 

This is for voice imports using the GENERIC_AAC, GENERIC_M4A, GENERIC_WAV, GENERIC_WMA, or MP3 Audio Formats. 

Added: New email alert on Batch Distribution updates.

This new alert will send an email each time a report is added to a specific Batch Distribution. 

 

The email shows the number of reports added to the Batch Distribution since the last check and shows the total number of reports in the Batch Distribution.

 

 

Configuration is simply creating a new alert.  Then enter an Alert ID, Description, and select the ‘Check for report(s) added to a Batch Distribution (8)’ Alert Type on the Main tab.

 

On the Batch tab, use the ‘Select Batch Site and ID’ button to select the site and ID.  The button will open first open a Sites lookup window and then a Batch Control lookup window.  Below is the new Batch tab in Alerts.

 

 

Then select a Schedule.  Suggestion here is Recurring and Every 5 minutes.

Finally, enter Email recipients.

 

A wizard for this Batch Distribution alert has been added for configurations.

 

 

Added expanded capability to add email recipients to Alerts.

Previously, only five email recipients could be set up for an alert and those five recipients had to be set up in the MTALERT configuration.  Added a memo field where additional email recipients can be added.  Simply enter a carriage return delimited list of email addresses in the Additional Email Recipients field.  This field can be used in conjunction with the email code fields or all recipients can simply be put in this field.

 

 

Added: new Custom-ADT import for fixed length files.

Fixed Length file type are files where fields begin at a certain character position and extend for a set number of character.  Below is an example.

 

     PATIENT DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT   07/02/2021

MRUN    ACCTNO   PATLAST     PATFIRST     ADMT DATE

645374  764532   SMITH       RHONDA       07/02/2021

984562  763567   JOHNSON     GREGORY      07/02/2021

 

 

This new import type is configured by selecting CUSTOM-ADT as the Data Type on the Main tab in Program Configuration.

 

 

Then type in FIXED as the format on the Data Fields tab.

 

 

Then do the mapping on the Mapping tab.

Please use the Help button on the Mapping tab for information on mapping.

 

 

 

Two new special fields have been added to mapping for this new FIXED format and also for the DELIMITED format.

 

The first is normalizenewlines. This option insures that all lines in the import file end with carriage return/line feed characters instead of just a carriage return or a line feed.  Files will not process correctly with only a CR or LF character at the end of lines.

 

Usage is to just put normalizenewlines on a line in the mapping field.

 

The second is excludeline. This option is used to prevent certain lines from being processed during import. This would typically be header lines at the top of a file such as lines showing field names. 

 

In the small example file at the top, we would not want the first two lines of this file to process:

 

PATIENT DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT   07/02/2021

 

and

 

MRUN    ACCTNO   PATLAST     PATFIRST     ADMT DATE

 

Usage to exclude these lines is:

 

excludeline=PATIENT DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT

excludeline=MRUN    ACCTNO   PATLAST     PATFIRST     ADMT DATE

 

There can be up to ten excludeline lines in mapping.

 

The text following excludeline does not have to match the text on the entire line to be excluded, it only has to match any part of the text on a line. 

 

The second line above could just be: excludeline=MRUN or excludeline=ACCTNO, etc.

Added: Workflow Server custom installers.

Workflow Server splash pages now include the new SpeechMotion 5.6 installer with pre-loaded URL.

 

New users can be directed to the default page e.g. https://workflowserver.speechmotion.com and launch the installer linked on the page. The installer will autofill the URL to the workflow server – no longer requiring the user to do so.

 

 

Added: Single Sign On (SSO) support for Microsoft Azure AD with Enterprise Client.

SSO support using Azure AD is available for those who want to sign into SpeechMotion using the same credentials used in at organization.

 

This option requires .NET Framework 4.6.1 or greater to be installed.

Most Windows 10 installations that are regularly updated will have this installed.

 

SSO currently is not available on the E-Sign Portal.

 

Contact SpeechMotion support for setup questions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

SpeechMotion Software Team

https://www.speechmotion.com