AudioScribe Founder and Training Leader

Adria Theriot holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). Adria returned to the University of Louisiana in 2013 to continue her studies in the visual arts and Education, completing 24 additional hours of graduate-level work.

During her first time in college, Adria worked for Computers for Business Mgmt. teaching secretaries' programs including but not limited to: WordStar, AmiPro, WordPerfect, CorelDraw, Word, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, ACTION, Adobe Premier Pro, Lotus Notes, and the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Adria lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Anchorage, Alaska, before moving back to Louisiana and joining the family business, Computers for Business Management, in 1996, now known as CBM Technology.

In 1997, Philip Kaufman and Chad Theriot approached Adria about a new start up that they needed help getting off the ground. Adria began working on the AudioScribe project in April of 1997 and has been with AudioScribe ever since, eventually earning the position of President.

Adria wrote all the initial documentation manuals and methodology for the AudioScribe family of products, did all the initial training, certified trainers, and traveled the world demonstrating and teaching AudioScribe applications and use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM Via Voice as well as the Windows operating system and Microsoft Word, and Corel WordPerfect for many years.

Adria has worked with the individual court reporters, Captioners, CART Providers, several branches of the U.S. Military, State and Federal courts, overseas governments, and schools to develop the best possible methodologies for working with AudioScribe applications including: SpeechCAT for Realtime, CART and Captioning, DigiTran Professional and Lite for digital recording, Transcriptionist for dictating from digitally recorded audio to produce transcripts, Remote Scopist for Scoping text created by a realtime writer, and Media Controller for listening to digitally recorded audio and controlling that audio with a foot pedal for typists.

Adria has always run the BETA program, assists in development, documentation, performs training and attends speaking engagements online and, on the rare occasion, in person. Adria developed the AudioScribe Continuing Education (ACE) portal in 2017, facilitating online education in AudioScribe software products, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Windows 10 and 11, Peripherals and, together with other valued trainers and course creators, has been improving upon the courses ever since.

Social Media

Adria also hosts four YouTube channels with AudioScribe educational content, some free and some paid. Adria is expanding to TikTok and Facebook as well as a way of continually bringing education to the Voice Writing community.

Specific Skill Sets and Software expertise

Microsoft Office 365 Suite Corel WordPerfect TechSmith Camtasia

TechSmith Snag It Adobe Acrobat Adobe Photoshop

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Windows Professional Operating System

All AudioScribe products Goldmine Premium Zoom

Realtime Feeds ProProfs Quiz Maker TeamViewer

Public Speaking

I have spoken at Many National and State Conventions on Dragon Naturally Speaking and our custom-developed software, SpeechCAT, as well as our other products. I have spoken on an educational platform as well as a sales platform to Military Law Office Managers around the globe. I have also spoken to Military generals at a meeting of upper-ranking military officials regarding speech recognition and its role in the legal sector. I have provided multi-day seminars and trainings, which I organized and conducted myself, providing workbooks and supporting materials.

Educational Resources

In 2016, I created and for many years maintained a Moodle Education Portal where customers could take advantage of over 12 different online, self-paced courses that teach computer basics, Dragon, Hardware proficiency, our custom Software, how to train our custom software and basic Windows. The courses contain reading material, videos and imagery to assist the learner in succeeding in his/her course. Exams throughout the course evaluate the learner's success in picking up the concepts taught. Learners completing the courses receive a certificate of completion or a certificate of excellence depending on their scores.

Documentation

Since the inception of the AudioScribe Corp. in 1997, Adria has written and re-written documentation, including but not limited to workbooks, user manuals, step-by-step handbooks, and frequently asked question documents for focused learning.

Development

For 25 years, Adria has sat in on code reviews with AudioScribe programmers, where the software was discussed and how and in what order the team would get it to where it needed to be. Adria is also the Alpha tester for the custom software modules, and she runs the Beta program where end users use the newest version available to test it in a real environment before it is released to the general user population. They report to Adria, who then reports to the programming team, where the urgency of the item is discussed, and development is scheduled accordingly.

Support

Adria has provided software and hardware support for court reporters for 28 years and CART Captioners for about 15 years. Adria has also supported other custom software using TeamViewer, Join.Me, and QuickAssist for remote support.

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