Voice Recognition

Abstract

There are many new technologies being developed that are revolutionizing the practice of radiology. Dictation is an integral part of our day-to-day practice and represents an area in which improvements would save us both time and money. Advances in speech and voice recognition (VR) technology have brought about more practical, usable speech recognition capabilities in the past five years. In late 1994, the effort to develop large-vocabulary, continuous speech recognition systems in American English had progressed to the point where accuracy had become less of an issue and vendors could focus on specific markets. In addition, the development of the Internet and intranets created an infrastructure with a client-server model that could support such a dictation system.