A systematic review of speech recognition technology in health care

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Johnson, Maree ^a,b   Lapkin, Samuel ^b,c   Long, Vanessa ^d   Sanchez, Paula ^b,d   Suominen, Hanna ^e   Basilakis, Jim ^d   Dawson, Linda ^f  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INGHAM INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health professionals; Human transcriptions; Interactive voice response systems; Nursing; Speech recognition; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CINAHL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EMBASE; HUMAN; INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEM; LIBRARIAN; MEDICINE; MEDLINE; NARRATIVE; NURSING; PSYCINFO; STAFF; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TURNAROUND TIME; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84928818543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-14-94     Document Type: Review

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