Looking for a list of legal terms for a speech to text dictionary

Post date: 2024-04-26 11:45:03

I have been using various speech to text tools in my legal practice (and personal life). Some of these tools allow you to upload a custom dictionary of words to improve accuracy. I'd like to upload a list of terms that are specific to U.S. legal practice, but I don't want the hard work of constructing that list myself.

I'm a lawyer and I've recently been using a lot of speech to text for legal work, rather than writing typing things out. In general I find it very convenient. However there's one issue that I keep running into which is that speech to text tools (whether it is the windows 11 speech to text, Apple dictation or other third-party tools like otter.ai or fireflies.ai) aren't very good at knowing specific legal jargon. So I've been really interested in creating custom dictionaries that I can upload into some of these speech to text systems.

Essentially I'd like to find a set of specialized terms and jargon associated with U.S. law and litigation practice. Of course, there are a lot of dictionaries and glossaries out there, the that's not exactly what I'm looking for. Instead, I just want a list of terms without definitions.

And ideally, I'd like a list of specialized terms/jargon that is only associated with the law. For example, while a "deed" is a term with a legal meaning, I dont need it on my list, because it is also a word in common english. However, something like "supersedeas" would be helpful.

(bonus request that I'll probably ask separately -- it would be really cool if I could use some tool to pull unique non-typical words out of a set of documents or an outlook pst file or something like that, because it would be great to also add unique names, company names, client industry terms and the like to a custom dictionary. If you are aware of anything like this or another way to skin the cat, please let me know!)

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