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[hobbitomm]

Does anyone have expeience of speech recognition software, particulaly medical specialised ones?

Answers on a postcard....

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[gypsy0131.livejournal.com]

Actually, a man you may want to contact is Mark Gibson. He is trying to develop a niche in this area over here. I will text you with his phone number.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Only ten years ago when it was still cutting edge. :)

But RGU has a medical AI group who do such stuff. I'll email you with a contact.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

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<q?Only ten years ago when it was still cutting edge. :)</q>

Same here, only I'd phrase that as "Only ten years ago when it still really sucked".

I would really like to hope the large vocab stuff has come a long way since then, but my exposure to voice-enabled car navi units at my current job leads me to seriously doubt it. )-:

Good luck...

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was more like 15 years ago... And yes, it really sucked. It sucked like a 15 solar mass black hole. It's probably down to about 9 solar masses by now.

[ormsweird.livejournal.com]

You haven't gone and cut your fingers off now, have you? Hmm? :)

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Actually I do, I did the speech part of our robot project term. I looked a bit at the time, this was two years ago, but I settled on the software suite called Sphinx from Carnegie Mellon University. The link to their main site is:
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/

On that site you'll find a ton of links, and perhaps if you contact them they might refer you to others who have done specialization towards medical speech recognition. It is after all, a much smaller subset to cater a program for a specific and contained jargon than for the entire English Language.

[juliann.livejournal.com]

All of the commercially available ones suck. Some work better if you can fake an American accent though ;) (No I am NOT kidding)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Doesn't surprise me. Actually, it's for work, and they were looking at some of the more expensive ones- perhaps Dragonpro, or whatever it's called

[juliann.livejournal.com]

DragonSpeaking Pro I am guessiing, although maybe they changed the name. I didn't like it. I found ViaVoice a little easier to train but still a pain. I have not yet used iListen so dunno about that one but I think it's mac-only.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Hmm, do you train it or does it train you? Back when I worked at Dragon, you could tell how long any given person had been working there, because after a while they all sound exactly the same.

p.s. "It's hard to wreck a nice beach".

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

It was Dragon Dictate I played with way back when it only ran on the DEC box. You trained it and trained it and trained it and prayed that you didn't catch a cold because you'd have to train it again...

[eagle-archer.livejournal.com]

Hmm - I know the feeling! Only use it for long essays - so much easier than typing - but you always have to proof read it really carfully! lol!

[(Anonymous)]

You don't know me and I know this post was old, but if you are still looking for a medical voice recognition software, try Dragon... but make sure you buy the medical module for it. I work at a hospital and we are looking for a new information system for our emergency department. I have seen some compelling demonstrations at a couple of other hospitals who use it. Good luck.