Voice Recognition? Better think again.

Hi, I am not here to put down VR, but learning this technique and teaching your VR your voice are two different subjects. I am a medical transcriptionist becoming more aware of VR. There are quite a number of problems concerning VR, one of course is teaching your VR your voice commands. They have not yet perfected medical terminology or regular words. There of course is also the aspect of editing your work after you are done documenting. Of course me being a medical transcriptionist, I can type faster then the VR can put it up on the screen (yes a faster computer helps, but typing is still faster). Right now using a transcriptionist is still the cheapest and easiest way of documenting your work. VR is time consuming also, something most doctors don't have a lot of. My being an independent contractor makes transribing cheap vs. VR costing at times close to $2,000.00. Dragon VR seems to be the best at this time, but remember you HAVE to edit your documentation, VR will NOT get every word correct.

Just my opinion, Thanks.

• Oh and it takes 3 months or more to TRAIN your VR. (NM) by Transcriptionist, 9/23/98