Medical dictation by specialty

Each specialty has its own words: eponyms, drug names, scores and procedure names that a general dictation tool has never seen. VoicePrivate groups its medical dictionary by specialty. The lists below cover every specialty in the app's picker, how many specialty terms it carries, and a dictation guide where one exists. Each guide covers that specialty's note types, the terms general tools get wrong, a worked dictation example and how the text gets into your EHR.

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How specialty choice works

On Mac, choose your specialty in Settings. VoicePrivate then primes recognition with that specialty's core terms, and a long misheard word that is a near miss of one of them is matched to the specialty term first. Podiatry also turns on foot and ankle context rules, such as "planter plate" to "plantar plate". On Windows the picker is not shown and the full dictionary is used for every note. Either way, all 75,374 terms stay available, and you can add your own or import a Dragon word list.

Text is pasted where your cursor is after you press the hotkey to stop. Speech is processed on your computer: audio never leaves it and nothing is sent to a cloud service.

Surgical specialties

• Surgery dictation
• Orthopedics dictation
• Podiatry dictation
• OB/GYN dictation
• Ophthalmology dictation
• ENT / Otolaryngology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Urology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Vascular Surgery: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Anesthesiology dictation: not a picker option; it uses the surgical and general terms

Medical specialties

• Cardiology dictation
• Gastroenterology dictation
• Oncology dictation
• Neurology dictation
• Psychiatry / Behavioral Health: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Dermatology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Endocrinology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Pulmonology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Nephrology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Rheumatology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Hematology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Infectious Disease: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Allergy & Immunology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Genetics: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Pain Medicine: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet

Diagnostic specialties

• Radiology / Imaging dictation
• Pathology dictation

Primary care and allied health

• Emergency Medicine: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Pediatrics: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Geriatrics: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Nursing: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• PT / Rehabilitation: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet
• Speech-Language Pathology: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet

Dental

• Dental / Oral Health: vocabulary in the app, guide page not written yet

Vocabulary size by specialty

Source: we counted the terms in the Healthcare dictionary file that ships in the VoicePrivate app, October 2026. A further 32,856 general medical terms apply to every specialty and are not counted above.

Guides that apply to every specialty

• Dictation for doctors, for primary care and general practice.
• Dictating into your EHR: Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, ModMed and Citrix clipboard settings.
• The complete guide to medical dictation software.
• Dragon Medical One vs VoicePrivate.

Price

One Healthcare Edition licence covers every specialty: $297 a year or $34.99 a month per clinician. There is no free trial. Individual monthly and annual plans include a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment.

Specialty questions