Comments on: Nuance Acquires Philips Speech Recognition Systems

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:17:35 +0000

To Cristobal,
I’d be interested in how Microsoft’s SR will work in Epic and other EMR’s. Will you be using it or are you still waiting for a cheaper Dragon Professional?

By: Cristobal M

Cristobal M — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:55:17 +0000

I usually shed tears when Microsoft blasts another company out of the water. In this case though, I really won’t feel so terrible when Nuance gets a dose of its own medicine. Nuance sees the writing on the wall, which I’m sure is why they offered Dragon Preferred at $50 recently. Not me. I will not give them a dime. I’ve wanted Dragon Professional features for years and now many of them are here with Microsoft’s speech recognition. It’s coming; Nuance actually selling Professional for a reasonable price…

By: AlternativeThinker

AlternativeThinker — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:27:09 +0000

That leaves Nuance and M*Modal in the marketplace. Nuance has a range of engines from different acquisitions (Dictaphone, Commisure, eScription..) and M*Modal has quietly captured many of the transcription service organizations and recently announced integration into GE’s solution.

The M*Modal solution is interesting since it offers speech understanding which according to their web site
>>> offers a unique combination of speech recognition and natural language understanding that captures a physician’s meaning….encode clinical facts……Meaningful Clinical Documents are built on HL7’s Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)<<<<

So I would say there is still competition in the marketplace

By: Dysf(n)

Dysf(n) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:01:57 +0000

Re speech recognition / tablets & mics:

High end tablet CPU packages (Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo & others coming) should have enough power; Motion C5 seems a little underpowered, especially running other apps with speech recognition. I’m hoping they will upgrade CPU in the near future, would like to see this platform more broadly used.

Some new choices for Bluetooth starting to come available, based on a more robust Bluetooth stack. Bluetooth’s original goal (compression) is antithetical to best performance with speech recognition. I’m testing a new mic right now — small Bluetooth device with a boom arm that puts the mic element in the right place — does very well with DNS9, testing with 10. When it comes to array microphones, I’m from Missouri — doubt they will perform in anything but the most optimal situation with minimal background noise.

By: Dan Field

Dan Field — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:37:25 +0000

Funny you should ask about tablets. I keep experimenting with little bluetooth mics and tablets. I am getting a loaner from Lenovo of their new x200t with promised noise canceling dual array mic and will pair that with DNS10 when I get it. I have a SpeechMic for demo reasons but no one else except radiologist use them. My people are ED(emergency department) and we don’t seem to want to hold any microphone in our hands we want to have our hands free space for little bit of typing and/or mousing. Right now, I am dictating into a new HP2710P with a parrot bluetooth microphone with mixed results. Another user has used a jawbone 1 successfully with the tablet, and older HP. BTW, the unit I am using has only a 1.2GigaH. dual core processor.