voice recognition

A doctor using a desktop computer
By  Adam Ang 11:37 am September 5, 2022
South Korean medtech company Puzzle AI is set to take on the medical AI voice technology assets of VUNO as part of a recently signed strategic agreement. Established in 2018, Puzzle AI develops voice AI technology tools for the medical industry. Its portfolio of solutions includes VoiceEMR, which converts voice dictation into a medical record, and VoiceENR, a voice recognition tool for nurses....
Boy in a wheelchair uses Voiceitt with the help of a caregiver
By  Mallory Hackett 12:20 pm June 8, 2021
Speech recognition company Voiceitt is making it easier for people with non-standard speech to communicate with those around them and to use voice command devices with the release of its app on the Apple Store. The app, which is being offered for free for a limited time, is designed for people with speech disabilities, impairments or disorders. It utilizes machine learning algorithms to learn...
By  Sara Mageit 05:03 am August 11, 2020
Israel-based speech recognition technology company, Voiceitt, has successfully raised $10 million in a Series A round which closed on 30 June 2020.   Investors included Viking Maccabee Ventures, Microsoft's M12, AMIT Technion, Cahn Capital Corp, Connecticut Innovations and AARP along with Quake Capital, SLJ Family Office, Dreamit Ventures and The Disability Opportunity Fund, bringing total funds...
By  Dave Muoio 03:04 pm May 23, 2019
Amazon is building a wrist-worn device and accompanying app that listens to the wearer’s voice to identify their emotions, according to an anonymous source as well as internal documents acquired and reported on by Bloomberg. The system, codenamed Dylan, is intended to be used as a health and wellness product, and might be adapted to provide the wearer guidance on how they may more effectively...
doctor dictates for medical transcription automation tools
By  Jeff Lagasse 02:48 pm July 18, 2018
Medical transcription tools have long been legacy products but as vendors inject modern technologies, notably automation and voice recognition, new data suggests that hospitals are going to deploy more of these products and services amid broader digital transformation work. Medical transcription is the process by which doctors and healthcare professionals process health records, which are then...
By  Dave Muoio 11:49 am November 27, 2017
Voice recognition technology employed by Google Assistant, Google Home, and Google Translate could soon become a transcription tool for documenting patient-doctor conversations. In a recent proof of concept study, Google researchers described their experiences developing two automatic speech recognition (ASR) methodologies for multi-speaker medical conversations, and concluded that both models...
By  Jonah Comstock 07:04 am November 21, 2013
A non-health related demo of Fluential's software. Billionaire doctor Patrick Soon-Shiong's Nant Health is making a big investment in voice interfaces for healthcare. The company is investing $8 million in Fluential, a stealthy but longstanding company working on "of speech optimization and deep language understanding tools for mobile devices, wearables and consumer 'personal assistant'...
By  Jonah Comstock 06:29 am February 11, 2013
When IBM's Watson supercomputer took down Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings just about two years ago, IBM let slip that Watson's next gig would be as a voice-enabled physician's assistant. Now IBM is giving us a little more information, releasing a video demo that shows how Watson might help an oncologist diagnose and treat a cancer patient. The demo, which warns that it's "not necessarily a direct...
By  Brian Dolan 04:54 am October 18, 2012
Just one week after Nuance Communications announced that it had inked a deal with Cerner to add voice input to the electronic health records (EHR) company's mobile EHR apps, it has announced a similar deal with Epic. Epic users can now use Nuance voice recognition technology to capture clinical information in Epic's Haiku app for iPhone and its Canto app for iPad. In the announcement Nuance cites...