| When voice recognition technology first came into | | | | their dictations. The complex medical terminology |
| being, many audio transcribers thought that their | | | | that doctors use in the dictations was not |
| careers will soon come to an end, but now that | | | | recognized accurately by the software, and parts |
| the technology has been in existence for more | | | | in the medical transcripts were either blank or |
| than a decade, commercial use of the technology | | | | miss-spell, requiring re-edit. |
| is yet to reach a level which can pose a serious | | | | The voice recognition technology is based on the |
| threat to the existence of audio transcription | | | | process of first converting sound into a digital |
| companies or transcribers. | | | | format which is compatible with the computer, |
| Production departments of media companies that | | | | the sampling rate of the application determines |
| use audio transcriptions for different processes | | | | the quality of the conversion from analog to |
| are of the view that voice recognition does not | | | | digital, and during this process the noise level has |
| meet the quality standards that they need in a | | | | to be filtered, so that the microphone does not |
| transcript. The television companies that use | | | | pick-up any other noise, excepting the speakers, |
| transcripts for adding captions into the programs | | | | the complexity of the technology needs to be |
| had high expectations from voice recognition | | | | understood for it to be commercially viable. But |
| applications, but after they were tested, the | | | | for this to happen, the multimedia professionals, |
| transcripts had glaring errors in them, and for the | | | | doctors, attorneys that need audio transcription |
| captions to synchronize perfectly with the audio in | | | | need training and guidance on using voice |
| the programs the accuracy that they were | | | | recognition technology. |
| looking for was close to 98%. | | | | As it appears now, these professionals are |
| The health care providers felt that voice | | | | satisfied using human resources for audio |
| recognition applications will help them cut down | | | | transcriptions, and audio transcription companies |
| costs on medical transcriptions, and many doctors | | | | are here to stay, until voice recognition |
| bought the expensive software, only to dump | | | | applications are favorably acceptable for use. |
| them later after briefly experimenting them for | | | | |