Eric S. Fishman, MD, interviews the famous baseball player John Smoltz’ father, who is named John Smoltz himself, and distributes input devices for the dictation market.  Mr. Smoltz discusses the long history of these professional gadgets and how these DSS devices evolved to better integrate with today’s ever-changing transcription solutions. Exhibited in the interview are the different top-of-the-line hand held digital recorders with slide switch, indexing and security capabilities that are readily available to the medical industry.