Ping Linda Hungerford, final results of MacSpeech test


Mark Conrad posted this on 10/30/2009
Medical jargon will be spoken into the regular $200
version of MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.5 a few days from now
be me, hopefully it will perform well. I will post results.

Sorry about the delay in posting the results, other projects
interferred.

The test results were no mistakes whatever in 4 minutes
of dictation, dictating a 600 word complex medical abstract
about an operation to fix mitral regurgitation.

Dictation speed was 150 wpm.

If those complex medical words were one-syllable words,
that would correspond to dictating at 370 wpm, because
the 600 complex words were comprised of 1,480 syllables.

Just to show it was no fluke, I dictated the abstract two
additional times, same results, no mistakes whatever,
not even punctuation errors, NO text corrections required.

Same dictation speed, 150 wpm to 370 wpm, depending on
whether those 600 words are multi-syllable
or one-syllable words.


You expressed a desire to go Mac, which is indeed possible.

EMR/EHR hookup is supported by "MacPractice MD".

<http://www.macpractice.com/mp/md/>


You have several things in your way, however.

You would need to upgrade to Mac OS 10.6.2 because
"MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.7 " will not run
on your older Mac OS 10.4.11

MacSpeech does not yet support specialized
digital recorders. (Dragon does)

Be certain you do not fall for the claims of some
vendors that they have an add-on to allow a recorder
to be used for MacSpeech transcription.

Such claims are half-vast schemes, with no support for
essential features like synchronizing the original audio
with the text on the screen.

This synchronizing is essential for any person responsible
for correcting text mistakes.

Both MacSpeech and Dragon support the Samson
"Airline 77" wireless microphone, which is
highly regarded as being very accurate and
noise tolerant.

I do not have an Airline 77, so can not offer any
personal critique of it, one way or the other.

BTW, my MacBook Pro is the same model as yours,
except I have 4 GB ram.



If you decide to go the Dragon route instead, and can
tolerate Windows, you will be able to use one of those
tiny digital recorders designed specifically for
speech recognition.

The Olympus DS-5000 is the present top-of-the-line
recorder, favored by most doctors and myself.

This allows the doctor to accumulate diagnoses during the
shift, rather that trying to remember critical details
later on.

It has the further advantage that the memory card can be
periodically swaped to an assistant, for transcription to
text, for preliminary text correction, so those tasks
do not pile up for the doctor to do late in the shift.

Many doctors claim they save $10,000 a year by doing
in-house transcription.

To make things easy, the results of my medical dictation
for 4 minutes is in the post immediately following this
post, for the benefit of any lurkers considering using
"MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.7" - - - (the $200 version)

Mark-
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