BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL STUDY VERIFIES SPEECH RECOGNITION EFFICIENCY GAINS AND ACCURACY THRU ASP PLATFORM

September 18, 2000 (Alpharetta, GA) – An independent study conducted by the Centre for Gastroenterology, Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London verified three-fold efficiency gains for medical reports processed through Automatic Speech Recognition
(ASR) over the Speech Machines Application Service Provider (ASP) transcription platform. The results of the study, which were published in the 9 September 2000 edition of the British Medical Journal, compared “441 consecutive outpatient clinic letters (reports) of similar length, of which 215 were produced by conventional dictation and manual typing and 226 by telephone dictation and CyberTranscriber.”

The study had users dictate over the telephone into Speech Machines’ ASR software to produce first drafts of the medical reports. Original voice files and ASR generated drafts were then forwarded via the Internet to medical transcriptionists for proofing and editing.

“We are very pleased to have independent verification of our services’ cost- and time- savings potential published in such a prestigious journal,” commented Michael von Grey, President and CEO of Speech Machines. “As a company focused on bringing increased efficiency to the medical transcription marketplace, it has always been our intention to offer ASR generated drafts as an option where it makes sense. This study clearly demonstrates just such an application.”