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Article: Voice Recognition Systems Gain With Doctors.
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- National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition
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- November 9, 1998
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Voice recognition technology is becoming more popular with medical professionals as a means of saving time and money, say industry experts. They add that coming advances in user-friendliness will make the systems more popular still.
National Underwriter spoke recently with two main voice recognition providers serving the medical field: Salt Lake City-based fonix corporation and Lernout & Hauspie, in Burlington, Mass.
In the nine months since its introduction, fonix's PowerScribe Radiology dictation product has been purchased by more than 20 healthcare institutions, the company said. The system turns speech into text at up to 180 words a minute. Unlike ...