![]() These authors also alluded to the issue of correction of errors and the use of templates for processing of information. ![]() Similar approaches have recently been applied in the reporting of surgical pathology with improvements in ‘turnaround time from 4 to 3 days’ and ‘cases signed out in 1 day improved from 22% to 37%’. Document processing within endocrinology and psychiatry including physicians and their secretaries also demonstrated improvements in productivity. Applications have been demonstrated in radiology with the authors noting a reduction in turnaround time of reports from 15.7 hours to 4.7 hours, although some difficulties with integration of systems have also been identified. As early as 1975 speech recognition systems were described ‘in which isolated words, spoken by a designed talker, are recognized through calculation of a minimum prediction residual’ reporting a 97.3 per cent recognition rate for a male speaker. Speech recognition (SR) systems compose of microphones (converting sound into electrical signals), sound cards (that digitalise the electrical signals) and speech engine software (that convert the data into text words). ![]() Speech recognition, in particular, presents some interesting applications.
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