Speech Recognition

Speech Recognition

Speech Recognition has arrived. Gone are the days of frustration for the voice recognition technology enthusiasts. Almost 90 % accuracy is arrived in certain systems.

Recently We had a brush with this technology. We were already having a lot of experience in the Dictation / Transcription Systems from Dictaphone - Now Nuance Corporation . As part of embracing new technology and a multi speciality Hospital one of our client, decided to go for voice recognition. They have purchased a System. We had the opportunity of co-ordinating the installation, training and commissioning the system in this Hospital. It was indeed a wonderful experience. They had a Radiology and Pathology Model. There are two servers at the back end and clients are web based.

There is a training curve connected with this system. Doctors have to read at least 10 sample reports to start with. With full training and adaptation, system will give 95% accuracy. This mainly suitable for Doctors in the Radiolgy. Even though, they have the choice of Self Edit and Sending the part recognised documents and speech to the Transcriptionists, the recent tread being to encourage the Doctors to be self edit. They are various incentives schemes are being worked out on this matter.

There are a lot of information on the Net regarding this subject. Follow the link, if you are interested to go on.


http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch1node3.html