Google researchers: Speech recognition tech can lessen physicians’ transcription burden

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Google researchers: Speech recognition tech can lessen physicians’ transcription burden

Voice recognition technology employed by Google Assistant, Google Home, and Google Translate could soon become a transcription tool for documenting patient-doctor conversations. In a recent proof of concept study, Google researchers described their experiences developing two automatic speech recognition (ASR) methodologies for multi-speaker medical conversations, and concluded that both models could be used to streamline practitioners workflows.