Medical Transcription Forum @ MT Herald
News: September 06, 2010, 03:35:24 PM
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
*



Mediquest And Nuance-A High Powered Alliance


Pages: [1]   Go Down
  Print  

  Mediquest And Nuance-A High Powered Alliance
Author Message
dudleyb
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 144


View Profile
« on: December 13, 2009, 07:17:28 AM »

Meidquest has signed a deal with Nuance,which is a leader in speech recognition technology,under which mediquest will be authorized to license Nuance's SpeechMagic speech recognition engine and processing software for use in SpeechQ of General Medicine(TM), MedQuist's front-end speech recognition application for all medical disciplines.

What every body thinks about it's implications?Do you think it has the potential to  make human transcriptionists redundant in future?
Logged
Raj
Administrator
Full Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 115



View Profile WWW
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2009, 09:30:00 AM »

Speech recognition technology cannot completely replace human being until artificial intelligence is discovered.  Until then any speech recognition software is bound to make errors, which need editor intervention.  Speech recognition softwares are just to be medical transcriptionists' aide to improve productivity rather than completely replacing medical transcriptionists itself.
Logged
dudleyb
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 144


View Profile
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2009, 05:02:15 AM »

Yes i agree speech recognition technology has to really evolve to reach that level,through artificial intelligence may be. and i just hope that it remains just a tool to aid the MTs for a long long time.
Logged
Raj
Administrator
Full Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 115



View Profile WWW
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2009, 04:33:50 PM »

Even a well trained speech recognition software makes mistakes if the physician's modulation  changes or if the voice changes just by a common cold! So think how well it is reliable!  (I have not mentioned the regular interpolation errors it makes with everything normal.)
Logged
dudleyb
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 144


View Profile
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2009, 07:06:05 AM »

yes you are right,its a long way to go before a flawless technology emerges.
Logged
Anna L
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 41


View Profile WWW
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2010, 07:29:24 AM »

It must be a useful thing.
Logged

Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Print  
 

Jump to: