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What is ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) for Medical Practitioners ?
- Talk to your PC thru a mic, the software types out what you say on the screen
- Dictate into a recorder and later play it into your PC software to transcribe the text
- Use an office desktop PC or a portable notebook PC
- Dictate complex medical terminology and issue Word navigation/control commands
- Automate workflow with office software scripting and document creation instructions
How does it work, what is required for success ?
- Speech Recognition software -- Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) Medical Suite
- Custom WFS Medical Specialty Vocabulary -- Thousands of medical terms/phrases
- Noise Cancelling Mic Headset -- Included with Software
- Fast 1.7GHz PC (Intel or AMD) with 512MB memory & a good sound card
- Motivated user with a minimal foreign accent
- Office workflow analysis to improve practice patient chart creation
- Training to learn the necessary dictation style, commands and work-arounds
- Knowledge and practice in techniques to improve system performance & accuracy
- Optional Mics -- Handheld Philips SpeechMike, Voice Array Mic, PC/Phone Switchbox
What benefits does successful ASR provide ?
- Elimination of all transcribing, proofing, document formating labor, services & costs
- Quick, one-time completion of dictated work -- increases productivity
- Never any round-robin proofing/correcting/formating procedures
- Accuracy improves upon increased conscientious use
- Hands-free text dictation, cursor movement and Windows navigation/control
- Never any terminology misspellings. Text typed out the way the user prefers
- Use ASR for e-mail, letters, web browsing, etc
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