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Speech recognition has proved to be a natural interaction modality and an effective technology for medical reporting, in particular in the speciality of radiology. High-volume text creation requirement and the complex structure of these texts make voice technologies useful. By employing speech, professionals in the field can generate reports and do so at a speed that approaches traditional dictation methods.
However, the integration of speech recognition in a user interface creates new problems: speech recognizers may introduce errors and moreover they should be adaptable to spoken language variations.
This paper describes a radiological reporting system and the related motivations for the use of the speech modality. A preliminary evaluation of the system has shown that, on average, although text recalling functions and keyword shortcuts are available, more than two thirds of a radiological report are generated by means of dictation.
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Antoniol, G., Fiutem, R., Flor, R., Lazzari, G. (1993). Radiological reporting based on voice recognition. In: Bass, L.J., Gornostaev, J., Unger, C. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. EWHCI 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 753. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57433-6_53
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