Technology is always evolving, and has become so ingrained in our lives that we never stop and really notice how much easier life has become with it around. Technology has taken mundane and time-consuming chores that are required in everyday living and business and reduced them to simple tasks that a machine can easily handle.
??However, the transcription industry is a large market and many medical professionals rely on human transcriptionists to convert their audio files to text. There's been a lot of scrutiny over technical systems that have been developed to handle transcription work. Systems like speech recognition and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are being used, but are not completely flawless and still require a human to check through the results and compare them with the audio file. In fact, there are still a large percentage of lawyers and hospitals that outsource all their transcription tasks to a company that employs human transcribers.
??Speech recognition has a large potential to really overtake any human transcriber, but the advances aren't quite there yet. The technology has gotten so advanced that they can record every word a doctor speaks with ease, but there are still a lot of grammar and punctuation problems. Since the English language is so complex, the software has yet to get the proper commas, periods, and question marks down on record, and punctuation can really make all the difference in the tone of a dictation.
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