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IXHEALTH: A Multilingual Platform for Advanced Speech Recognition in Healthcare

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Nowadays, there are many healthcare systems focused on the optimization and improvement of processes such as the generation of medical records and medical test reports. The interaction with this kind of systems is mainly done through user interfaces that demand the use of a keyboard or a mouse, which reduces the productivity of healthcare professionals. For example, pathological anatomy professionals use both sight and hands to analyse a sample by means of a microscope; therefore, the use of information systems through traditional interfaces (keyboard and mouse) involves a considerable waste of time and effort. In this sense, this work presents IXHEALTH, a multilingual platform for advanced speech recognition that allows healthcare professionals to perform transcription and dictation activities, as well as the definition and management of voice commands to interact with healthcare information systems. From this perspective, IXHEALTH was evaluated in terms of its ability to allow users to perform dictation activities and to interact with healthcare information systems by means of speech recognition and natural language technologies. The evaluation results seem promising and have proved that IXHEALTH platform is highly useful to healthcare professionals.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by the Murcian Government (Instituto de Fomento de la Región de Murcia) and the European Commission (FEDER/ERDF) through project IXHEALTH (2015.08.ID + I.0011).

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  1. VOCALI Sistemas Inteligentes S.L., Parque Científico de Murcia, Ctra. de Madrid km. 388, Complejo de Espinardo, 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Pedro José Vivancos-Vicente & Juan Salvador Castejón-Garrido

  2. Department of Informatics and Systems, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Mario Andrés Paredes-Valverde, María del Pilar Salas-Zárate & Rafael Valencia-García

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Vivancos-Vicente, P.J., Castejón-Garrido, J.S., Paredes-Valverde, M.A., Salas-Zárate, M.d.P., Valencia-García, R. (2016). IXHEALTH: A Multilingual Platform for Advanced Speech Recognition in Healthcare. In: Valencia-García, R., Lagos-Ortiz, K., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., del Cioppo, J., Vera-Lucio, N. (eds) Technologies and Innovation. CITI 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 658. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48024-4_3

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