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| The truth is that speech recognition software has | | | | breaks. If that was the case, the medical |
| been changing the transcription industry for quite | | | | transcriptionist would be left with a file that would |
| a while. What continues to change is the incredible | | | | be very difficult to read and require quite a bit of |
| ability of this software to adapt and handle all of | | | | manual intervention. |
| the different aspects of the medical transcription | | | | |
| business. Speech recognition software was | | | | Instead, modern speech recognition software |
| actually developed for other things, but it may | | | | comes as part of a transcription platform that will |
| have had the greatest effect on the medical | | | | allow for easy editing and correction of |
| transcription industry. The very core of this | | | | documents that have been delivered to the |
| business is to take speech and convert it into a | | | | transcriptionist. When the software does the |
| text file so that it can be used by other | | | | transcribing for them and delivers a document |
| physicians and medical professionals. | | | | that is close to a finished product, the majority of |
| | | | | the transcriptionists' time will be spent reviewing |
| In the early years, speech recognition software | | | | that document and making the necessary |
| would allow a medical transcriptionist to take | | | | changes. If they have a speech recognition |
| some kind of audio recording and convert it into | | | | software program that makes it easy for them |
| text. Much has changed since those times; the | | | | to make these changes and has the full |
| medical transcriptionist now likely work for a | | | | vocabulary required, it will increase their |
| company that has speech recognition software as | | | | productivity substantially. |
| part of an entire platform that will do the | | | | |
| transcribing for them. Those that work for a | | | | Some people might wonder if speech recognition |
| company that has the latest software platform | | | | software will once completely take the place of |
| will not actually do the speech recognition | | | | medical transcriptionists. This is a difficult scenario |
| themselves. | | | | to imagine, as no matter how advanced it |
| | | | | becomes the difficulty lies in the fact that human |
| There are a number of challenges to developing | | | | speech that is delivered to the system is often |
| speech recognition software that can work | | | | what is flawed. People may use contractions, |
| effectively in the medical industry. There are a | | | | colloquialisms or have difficult accents that are |
| number of terms that are used for illnesses, | | | | hard to program into software. |
| medicines or procedures that are specific to the | | | | |
| medical industry and are difficult for speech | | | | The change that this kind of speech recognition |
| recognition software to differentiate. The type of | | | | software brings and the platforms that it resides |
| speech recognition software that is used for | | | | on have more to do with the productivity of |
| medical transcription must be far more robust | | | | individual medical transcriptionists. They will always |
| than what would be used for regular dictation. | | | | be necessary, and medical transcription companies |
| | | | | simply have to make them more productive by |
| Another difficulty that regular speech recognition | | | | offering them tools that they can use easily. |