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87.3percent of standard-transcription productivity
In the endocrinology division of a 2003 randomized comparison, secretaries were 87.3 percent as productive with speech recognition as with standard transcription.
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In the source's own words
“Secretaries in the endocrinology division were 87.3% (confidence interval, 83.3%, 92.3%) as productive with the speech-recognition technology”
Speech Recognition as a Transcription Aid: A Randomized Comparison With Standard Transcription, David N Mohr et al., Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2003, Abstract, Results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1197/jamia.M1130)- What it measures
- Productivity was defined as hours of secretary work per minute of dictation processed, measured for speech recognition and for standard transcription in the same study.
- What it does not show
- One division in one organization, with a confidence interval of 83.3 to 92.3 percent. The psychiatry division did worse, so this figure is not an average for the whole organization.