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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?

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.

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.

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.)

yes you are right,its a long way to go before a flawless technology emerges.

It must be a useful thing.