Fact · Dictation
7.4percent of words
In clinical notes dictated in 2016, the draft produced by speech recognition had an error rate of 7.4 percent, that is 7.4 errors per 100 words.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The error rate in SR notes was 7.4% (ie, 7.4 errors per 100 words).”
Analysis of Errors in Dictated Clinical Documents Assisted by Speech Recognition Software and Professional Transcriptionists, Li Zhou et al., JAMA Network Open, 2018, Abstract, Results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.0530)- What it measures
- 217 notes (office notes, discharge summaries and operative notes) dictated by 144 physicians with Dragon Medical 360 and eScription, compared with the original audio.
- What it does not show
- One medical engine in 2016, with medical vocabulary. Errors include deletions and insertions, not only wrong words.
Source
Used to calculate
Cited on
- Dictation and Voice Typing: How to Talk Instead of TypeTopic
- Medical Dictation: Software, Devices and How It WorksGuide
- What Is Dictation Software? Types and How It WorksGuide
- What Is Dictation? Voice Typing and Talk to Text ExplainedGuide
- Writing a Book by Dictation: Software and WorkflowGuide
- Medical Transcription: The Job, the Pay and AIGuide
- Can you dictate a novel?Question
- How accurate are AI medical scribes?Question
- How do you dictate a letter?Question
- How do you dictate notes quickly?Question
- Is medical transcription hard?Question
- Is speech to text the same as dictation?Question
- What does a medical transcription editor do?Question
- What is medical dictation?Question
- What is the best dictation software for writing a book?Question
- What is the difference between dictation and transcription?Question
- What should a dictation software disclaimer say?Question