Feasibility study of speech recognition for gathering information needs

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:1059.

Abstract

Automated speech recognition (ASR) is used in many areas of medicine today. However, not many studies have evaluated the usefulness of ASR applications for capturing clinician information needs in noisy environments. We evaluated 72 ASR transcribed clinician-generated questions and assessed them for semantic and syntactic errors. The results showed that basic user training is not sufficient in order to capture the semantics of recordings.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Feasibility Studies
  • Noise
  • Speech Recognition Software*