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To: Su <su@@midosuth.rr.com>
Fr: Charles Horth
Email: Charles_Horth_Biomed@@compuserve.com
Re: Your request for 'vounteers' to voice-users group
Hi! Su,
You wrote:
“I'm setting up a web site which is dedicated to VR for MTs (medical
transcriptionists), and I'm kind of looking for people to "beta test" it
for me....."
"What I'm hoping to do is get some "experts" to go through everything and
tell me what you think:"
1. Is it reader friendly? Yes
2. Are all the "next page" links working correctly? No
3. Is the layout appealing to the eye? Delightful, enchanting
4. What works and what doesn't. One hyperlink didn't
I visited about 2:00pm BST (British Summer Time) about 9:0am your local
time.
I had no problem getting to the site but one of the hyperlinks failed
("Getting started with Dragon". Really loved the dragon graphics. Could
do with some of that Wizard Coffee myself.
I do a lot of Medical Writing (reports of clinical trials, articles for
publication, writing up proceedings of conferences for newsletters etc.) --
so NaturallySpeaking has become a great help. I do find that the playback
on "Correct That" command very useful. When I discover a typo, speako,
voico, drag-o, dicterro, reco or hooto, or whatever, I don't always
remember precisely what I said five minutes after I dictated it. You ought
to start a collection of some of the priceless transcription errors. What I
can't figure out is how Dragon would help a Medical Transcriber. If a
file, created by a physician, is full of such gems, it must be even more
difficult for the transcriber to "decode" and correct them -- unless, that
is, you can get them played back exactly as originally dictated.
Is a MT a modern St George in shining armour riding out to zap all the
drag-os?
I have a deep voice (some might say "gravely") but I have been astonished
at how quickly the accuracy improved after a few training sessions and
vocabulary building. The vocabulary is more medical-scientific covering
pharmacology, immunology, endocrinology, clinical trial data in oncology,
cardiovascular research, diagnostic imaging etc. I agree with your
observation that technical jargon is likely to be quite accurate but
simpler words often tend to be mis-recognised. I find that "Full Stop"
frequently appears as "will stop" (Dragon pausing for breath before the
next puff of fire :) ?
Can't wait to get my hands on version 3.0 and upgrade to Medical Suite
(hint).
Here in the UK we have to wait for the British English edition with the
International Dictionary. That's quite frustrating as my clients require
the US spelling (e.g., "hematology" rather than "haematology", "recognize"
rather than "recognise"). Do you know whether the ICH guidelines have
anything to say about this? Like one of the voice-users correspondents,
I'm tempted to purchase a US version but I'm not sure what the implications
would be for my speech recognition accuracy if a US Dragon complained it
didn't like my accent!
Thanks for drawing attention to your site. I found it was the best thing
to happen after Dragon's comprehensive documentation.............and I have
bookmarked it as one of my favourite (oops!) favorite sites.
Best regards,
Charles Horth
writing at 16:08 BST on 11 Jul 98
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