For general surgery

General surgery dictation software for Mac

Loquen is general surgery dictation software for Mac: hold one key, talk, let go, and clean, punctuated text lands at your cursor on your Mac. Its General Surgery pack holds 223 terms, so Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the Pfannenstiel incision and Yankauer suction come out spelled the way you write them.

What the General Surgery pack covers

In the pack’s own words: General and gastrointestinal surgery vocabulary covering operations, instruments, incisions, eponymous signs, staging systems, and perioperative documentation. That is 223 entries. Each one is the spelling you want typed, most with the mishearings a general speech model produces for it. When a term shows up in a dictation, the AI cleanup is told not to “correct” it.

• laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Lichtenstein repair
• transabdominal preperitoneal repair
• total mesorectal excision
• Hartmann procedure
• pancreaticoduodenectomy
• Nissen fundoplication
• peroral endoscopic myotomy
• Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
• Ivor Lewis esophagectomy
• intraoperative cholangiogram
• Calot triangle
• Hesselbach triangle
• Rovsing sign
• Courvoisier sign
• Pfannenstiel incision
• Veress needle
• Jackson-Pratt drain
• Metzenbaum scissors
• Bookwalter retractor
• Yankauer suction
• Clavien-Dindo classification
• Hinchey classification
• Alvarado score
• R0 resection
• anastomotic leak
• walled-off pancreatic necrosis

A sample of 27 of the 223 terms, exactly as the pack types them.

What you say, what gets typed

The left column is how a general speech model tends to write the spoken words. The pack swaps it for the right column before the text is pasted.

How it fits the day

Say the brief operative note, the postoperative check or the discharge plan the way you would say it aloud. Loquen pastes at the cursor in any app with a text field, including an EHR in the browser. Double-tap the key for hands-free; Esc cancels with nothing pasted.

The pack works alongside Medical core (2,307 terms, built around drug names, generic and brand, plus exam language, labs and imaging) and Pharmacology, which covers the long tail of drug classes. Every pack is included in the price. The packs are English only so far.

The pack also ships a starter set of phrases. A phrase is a named block of text: say its name anywhere in a sentence and the whole block pastes, untouched by the AI. Rename the starters, rewrite them, or add your own.

Private by default

Speech to text and AI cleanup run on the Mac’s own chip. In Private mode, the default, nothing you say leaves the computer: no audio, no text. The initial approximately 2.2 GB model download uses the network but carries no dictation. After setup, licence validation and update checks can use the network and carry no audio or text. No account, no telemetry, no screenshots. Built for HIPAA the simple way: patient notes never touch a server, so there is no server to trust. HIPAA compliance is about a practice’s whole workflow, so check with your compliance officer.