Who it is for
Solicitors, chartered legal executives, and PAs who still dictate between meetings, after a hearing, or at the desk, then retype the hour into a note.
A digital dictation workflow that ends at the file.
Replace the audio handoff with one accountable job: dictate in Voice, correct the transcript, generate on the firm’s template, and review the draft before filing.
The retyping
gap.
Traditional digital dictation stops at the audio file. Consumer speech-to-text stops at a generic paragraph. The hour is lost in between.
Speech is captured, then typed again from the recording.
Names, parties, and citations get mangled and left in.
Firm templates and letterhead are applied last, again.
How the job runs
Record or upload, correct the transcript, then generate onto a firm template. Clara proposes; you approve.
Record or upload
Live solo dictation in the browser, a desktop hotkey, mobile capture, or an audio file.
Correct the transcript
Fix names, figures, and legal terms before generation. Generation amplifies whatever you leave in.
Generate, then approve
Apply a firm template, accept or reject any Clara proposal, export PDF or DOCX.
Who it is for, what it takes,
and what it files.
Audience
England & Wales firms that still capture work as speech.
Fee-earners 
PAs & secretaries 
Supervising partners Inputs
Spoken work across the surfaces you already use.
Live dictation 
Desktop hotkey 
Audio upload 
Custom vocabulary Outputs & controls
File-ready drafts, with a human on every AI change.
Editable transcript 
Template-backed note 
Approval cards 
Workspace access Speech that becomes file-ready work
This is the job between a dictation file and a filed note. The fee-earner remains responsible for the document. Transcription is processed by AssemblyAI; recordings and documents are hosted in the UK by default.
Controls
Workspace roles and grants limit who can open the recording and note. Every Clara rewrite waits on an approval card. Capture is available on web, desktop (Windows and macOS), and mobile.
Built for legal workflows
Capture is available on web, desktop, and mobile, with editable transcripts, firm templates, and approval-gated drafting in the same workflow.
Learn more
Legal dictation questions,
answered.
What is legal digital dictation software?
Legal digital dictation software records a fee-earner’s speech and turns it into a transcript or draft document. Ardela adds editable transcription, firm templates, and an approval step before the work is exported or filed.
Can solicitors dictate from desktop and mobile?
Yes. Ardela supports browser capture, a desktop hotkey on Windows and macOS, mobile capture, and uploaded audio files, subject to the plan and device configuration in use.
Can Ardela use legal terminology and firm templates?
Ardela supports custom vocabulary and template-backed drafts. Names, figures, citations, and every generated document still need review by the responsible fee-earner before use.
Does Ardela automatically file final legal documents?
Ardela produces an editable transcript or draft. A person corrects the source record, reviews any AI proposal, and decides what is exported or placed on the matter file.
Dictate once.
Stop retyping the hour.
Try Voice with a representative memo you would otherwise type from the recording, then have the responsible fee-earner review the transcript and draft.