The USB foot pedal serves for multiple tasks associated with hands free transcribing and dictating. This kind of device has all the features necessary to make heavy transcription and dictation possible with a limitation of the workload and the fatigue level. USB foot pedal appliances are available with hands free dictation, legal and public safety transcription, insurance transcription or medical transcription. The products need to be used in parallel with a dictating software, and there should be a match between the two in terms of compatibility. The USB foot pedal was necessary to help improve the work conditions in domains where lots of other tasks and transactions depended on heavy transcribing and dictating. The use of the USB foot pedal also enables a good work position thanks to the ergonomic design. The device is available in smaller or larger sizes depending on the user's needs. The pedal includes a central sloping device and two additional keys that correspond to the fast forward and the rewind modes. The USB foot pedal has to be compatible with the dictation or transcription software, and it has to provide durability in order to resist to rugged heavy duty usage. Another advantage of the USB foot pedal is that it minimizes the foot fatigue, increasing the work comfort level. There are several operating system requirements for the use of an USB foot pedal. Most of the devices available on the market require a Windows-based transcription software program. Trying to adapt Windows Media Player and other sound file players to the use of a USB foot pedal is one very common mistake.