5 must have speech recognition tools for medical transcription

Medical transcription involves the use of speech recognition tools for proper documentation. This speech recognition software plays an integral role in transcribing the health records of the patient. The software is entitled to decipher the medical terminologies and the speech patterns of the physicians.  The speech recognition software provides a collaborative effort along with the dictation system and the editing process. There are various kinds of voice recognition software among which some are listed-

Dragon

The Dragon System NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software has a RAM of 32MB and HDD space of 180MB. This software claims to have a rich vocabulary of medical terminologies. In addition, the software has the provision of customization of the vocabulary needed for efficient transcription. It has a Command Wizard Feature that enables it to create medically specialized macros. In addition, it allows voice recognition in 30 min. 

IBM via voice

This speech recognition software is also similar to the other software with fact speech recognition. The most prominent feature of this speech recognition software is that it has automatic control of the microphone and the volume of the speaker. However, it lacks the customization of vocabulary but has a varied vocabulary of radiology and other medical terms. 

L&H

The speech recognition software has a major drawback as it does not provide any medical vocabularies. In addition, the software requires 75 minutes for the whole recognition process. 

Philips

The speech recognition software is marketed by Phillips under the name of Philips SpeechExec Pro 10. It takes very less time in converting the voice recording to textual format. It is a combination of the Dragon speech recognition software by Dragon. The main advantage is that it supports a variety of languages and vocabularies. The new words are added to the vocabulary as well.     

Amazon transcribe

The amazon transcribe is built in with the lucrative speech recognition features such as easy and fast transcription of the audio files. The speech recognition software can transcribe different varieties of audio files irrespective of its quality and format. It has the feature of customization of the vocabulary and can recognize multiple speakers in no time. This enables the software to separate each channel of voice that is present in the audio and provide the user with different transcribed files for different channels.

Thus finally it can be concluded that the Dragon System by Nuance is the highly recommended speech recognition software. This is because of its high accuracy and the customization features present in it making it an indispensable tool in the medical transcription field.