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Thanks for the information.
Holland
Jeff Foley wrote:
>
> just wanted to clear up a misconception.
>
> Holland wrote:
>
> The medical suite is basically for medical users who have no saved
> documents to use with the vocabulary builder. Most MTs (but not all)
> have plenty of saved documents on their hard disk and using Nat Medical
> is not only a waste of money, but will likely be less accurate than
> using Nat Deluxe/Pro and using the vocab. builder on a bunch of
> documents, ideally a different topic for each doctor.
>
> Jeff responds:
> Not entirely true. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Suite is designed to
> take advantage of saved documents just as much as the Professional edition.
> Yes, it starts off with many specialized medical terms already in the
> active vocabulary and backup dictionary, so if you don't have any saved
> documents for a vocabulary builder run, you'll start off "ahead" anyways in
> recognition accuracy, especially words that would normally have been OOV
> (out of voc). But if you do have saved documents, the fact that you
> already start out "ahead," with the medical language model information
> already present before the vocabulary builder, means your accuracy will
> improve even further.
>
> In other words, when using Dragon NaturallySpeaking with medical texts:
>
> Professional edition, no vocab builder = good accuracy
> Medical Suite, no vocab builder = better accuracy on medical texts
> Professional edition, vocab builder on medical documents = even better
> accuracy
> Medical Suite, vocab builder on medical documents = best accuracy.
>
> It's easy to think of a "medical vocabulary" as being simply a list of
> additional medical words included, and therefore think that something like
> a Steadman's dictionary would help. It's really the additional work put
> into the interrelating of those words, the more targeted language model,
> that increases the effectiveness of the Medical Suite (and the Legal
> Suite), and that's where the added value comes in. The vocabulary builder
> takes advantage of that new "base vocabulary" to creater a tighter, more
> accurate language model than you might be able to create with the "general
> business base vocabulary."
>
> Okay, I'll get off my marketing soapbox now. *grin* I just want people to
> realize the value inherent in these specialized base vocabularies, and how
> they work in conjunction with Dragon NaturallySpeaking's vocabulary builder.
> --Jeff
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