Improving the utility of speech recognition through error detection.

Despite the potential to dominate radiology reporting, current speech recognition technology is thus far a weak and inconsistent alternative to traditional human transcription. This is attributable to poor accuracy rates, in spite of vendor claims, and the wasted resources that go into correcting er...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 371 - 378
Autores principales: Voll K, Atkins S, Forster B
Formato: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2008
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Sumario:Despite the potential to dominate radiology reporting, current speech recognition technology is thus far a weak and inconsistent alternative to traditional human transcription. This is attributable to poor accuracy rates, in spite of vendor claims, and the wasted resources that go into correcting erroneous reports. A solution to this problem is post-speech-recognition error detection that will assist the radiologist in proofreading more efficiently. In this paper, we present a statistical method for error detection that can be applied after transcription. The results are encouraging, showing an error detection rate as high as 96% in some cases.