| When it comes to building a better mousetrap, | | | | In the medical profession, this has already proven |
| some companies have already done it. You may | | | | to be responsible for large changes. Before the |
| already have heard of transcription voice | | | | implementation of transcription voice recognition |
| recognition software that can take the spoken | | | | software, medical transcription was already a |
| word that is saved in an audio file format and | | | | huge and growing field. Now with this new |
| convert it into text. The fact that the software | | | | software, medical transcriptionists will be better |
| exists at all and enables much of the typing | | | | able to produce large volumes of work with |
| required in industries like medical transcription has | | | | improved quality. Instead of spending vast |
| saved countless millions of keystrokes. Not only | | | | amounts of time hammering a keyboard, these |
| that, but the software continues to improve and | | | | recognition software can take the audio file that is |
| the future of this technology is bright. | | | | provided by the medical professional and convert |
| Not only will the medical field benefit from the | | | | it into text so that it can be reviewed by the |
| advancement stay in the technology of | | | | transcriptionist. |
| transcription voice recognition software, but a | | | | It may be a concern of some that certain jobs |
| number of other fields will also feel the positive | | | | will become obsolete as a result of transcription |
| effects. Anyone who writes for a living or spends | | | | voice recognition software's proliferation. There |
| most of their day on a keyboard will welcome the | | | | are certain industries that may not hire as many |
| technology that allows them to speak to their | | | | people because they are simply more efficient. |
| computer. Imagine that someday the software | | | | The truth is that any technology that moves us |
| will be advanced enough that people will be | | | | forward often creates more jobs than it will |
| dictating emails, ebooks, articles and research | | | | eliminate. There are no more jobs for people who |
| papers to their computers to name just a few. It | | | | use typewriters, but those people have gone on |
| is likely that it will change the way that students | | | | to have better jobs that pay well and are more |
| learn. | | | | satisfying. |
| The advancements in transcription voice | | | | There is an incredible future ahead for |
| recognition software have come so far already it | | | | transcription voice recognition software, and there |
| is easy to see in the near future a change in the | | | | will be a day not too far off in the future when |
| way the offices are made so that people will | | | | nearly all of us can benefit from its use in one |
| have the ability to speak to their computers. It | | | | form or another. This can either be from the |
| may not be long before almost every office looks | | | | direct effect of using it personally or an indirect |
| like that of a medical transcriptionist's and | | | | benefit from being provided better service by an |
| everybody will have a microphone of some sort | | | | industry that has learned how to take advantage |
| in order to transcribe directly to their computer. | | | | of this technology. |