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Speech Rec - LAMT

Posted: Sep 05, 2012

Question--Has anyone tried beating them at their own game by purchasing their own speech rec system, installing it, and re-dictating what the dictators have said? Has it worked for you? Did you increase your productivity? What system did you use? Looking for info. Thanks!

sounds confusing - wouldnt that interfere with their program?

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Wish I knew more about technology.

speech rec - lamt

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I wonder if it would be useful for straight typing accounts? I'm not up on the technology, but I wonder if anyone has tried it?

I don't think it would work because sm - not a tekkie

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not only would not have to keep track of what was being dictated, you wouldn't be echo dictating what the doctor is saying. You would be dictating to the computer things like "remove the word and", "move cursor to end of line and remove text to next period." IMO, it won't work.

speech rec - lamt

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Thanks for your input!

Pros and Cons - Dragon User

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There are pros and cons to using a product like Dragon Naturally Speaking to work with your transcription. First, there are some platforms (Meditech Magic Workstation) that are not compatible. If you were to dictate into Word and then copy/paste, it would be doable.
Secondly, I currently have enough expanders, shortcuts, & autocorrects that my throughput for general ER transcription is faster than Dragon every could be.
But, if you were to do repetitive-type dictations (op notes) you can teach the software to insert normals you've built to "build" the file.
The hard part comes in the listening and then speaking and then making sure Dragon heard you right... If it really were so easy, everyone would do it.

I did it many years ago... - Morgan

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To save my hands. I dictated at the same time I listened to the dictation and spoke in language the software understood, i.e. "blood pressure one two zero slash eight zero period". I beat my keyboard speed considerably, however it required LOT more proofing and editing. There are certain words I never could get the software to differentiate, i.e. "he" and "she", which require much more careful proofing. By the time I finished, it had taken about 2 hours longer per day. The key is in use of phrases to get good accuracy and avoiding problem terms and using others, if the client doesn't mind.
If you have a very repetitive specialty, that uses a lot of canned text, I can see it maybe saving you time, but it didn't with oncology. I'd only use it in the future to save my carpal tunnels.

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