New speech recognition said to be 99% accurate

Be prepared, improvements are starting.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 has just been released and is said to be able to produce 160 words a minute and be up to 99% accurate, this compares to the test base of 40 words per minute with an accuracy of only 58%.

Not sure about the 40 words per minute part, but the accuracy of 58% sounds about right for the speech recognition I'm working with now. I'm all for advancements, but I'm hoping things stay at least a little messed up for the sake of my job.

Whole article here.

Speech Recognition demonstration gone awry

Not sure when this video was recorded, but it's so funny. Says it was posted July 29, 2006, so it's pretty old. The funny part is, I don't think it works that much better now.

Report: Use of speech recognition will double in the next five years

For those of you who are scared of speech recognition you should probably not read this article. If you are not afraid of SR than I found this article about the outlook of speech recognition and how basically the only reason speech recognition is still around is because of health care and MTs and radiologists. You can read the article here. I think SR, like it or not, is here to stay.

Have you ever?

I'm so happy to have spellcheck (is that one word or two?), I mean could you imagine the stuff that would go through if spellcheck didn't exist? We'd live in a world of hvaes and hve nots.

Like just now, I had this report that I was spellchecking and it picked up "fo." I type "fo" a lot instead of "of" so I have "fo" in my auto keys so that when I type "fo" it spells out "of" (I just reread that sentence and it sounds totally confusing but I think it makes just enough sense to at least get the gist of what I mean).

Like I said, my auto keys generally pick up "fo" except for, of course, this time. For some reason I had "fo" but the word was supposed to be "or." So where the heck did "fo" come from? Can you tell me because I sure have no clue why I had "fo" instead of "or." The only thing I can think of is the computer had typed (it was an ASR report) out for and I was going to delete the f but instead deleted the r. That's the likely scenario, although I've found that I'm usually a pretty unlikely type of person so chances are I for some odd reason typed "fo."

Thank goodness for spellcheck....can I get an amen to that???

Speaking of spell check, there's a spell check site here that if you put in something in it will spell check the entire thing. You can enter up to 20,000 characters so you could probably fit a pretty good item in there. Kind of cool if you don't, for some odd reason, have your own spell check.

Funny, funny speech recognition

Speech recognition (ASR) sometimes completely amazes me.

I work mainly on speech recognition, which I'm not overly fond of, but this morning it's been pretty great. Anyway, I'm sitting here doing a report and my ASR is having trouble picking up simple words such as back pain and keeps wanting to type odd things such as back pen and buck pin, but then I'll be going along and it will spell something hard right which always amazes me. How can it spell back pain wrong but pick up and spell the hard words correctly. Does the doctor pronounce the hard words more clearly?

The real kicker for me is when it will get the simple stuff wrong but spell the patient's name correctly, something like Warren Schraeder it will totally spell correctly. I always have to double check and smile when it gets the patient's odd name correctly or some doctor I've never heard of it spells right. Uhmm...shouldn't it get pain right and Warren Schraeder wrong? No this isn't really the patient's real name, patient confidentiality and all that you know.

Anyway, just something to stop and go hmmmm about.

A note about the picture above... I Googled speech recognition and then hit images and that picture was there. I have no clue why it was under speech recognition, but it made me smile so I added it.

Okay, a second note here. I got curious and went to look at where the picture came from and it's actually from a blog called Speech Recognition, news from a technology that is transforming healthcare practice. Very interesting that the latest post is about the sale of MedQuist to CBay, how funny, such a small blogging world. You can visit the blog here. Glad I went back and checked it out.