Do you remember watching those futuristic movies with people using voice commands in their spaceships? It may still be years away before we can purchase our own spaceships, but speech recognition is a reality that's being used in many facilities around the world.
Besides commanding computer systems to perform various tasks with the use of your voice, speech recognition programs are more importantly used in the medical and legal fields to transcribe audio data into text. Speaking is a faster way of generating data as opposed to writing and translating audio to text can be time-consuming if done manually. At the same time it is harder to index and store recorded data as opposed to text, which can easily be filed and searched.
In a healthcare system, for example, specialists can quickly dictate symptoms or treatment options into a digital voice recorder. This data can then be transcribed and added into the patient's electronic medical records, which will be available in the healthcare provider's computer system.
For lawyers, talking is their job, and implementing speech recognition programs into their daily responsibilities offers a kind of efficiency that's unmatched.
One of the Greatest benefits of speech recognition programs, however, is the ability to store your recorded speech as part of the permanent record. This can be extremely effective in a trial or arbitration setting, where you can actually play back your voice record to match it up with the typed document.
Financial professionals, such as RIA's and other investment advisors can especially benefit from accurate records as they can become evidence in future arbitration situations.
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