AhtractThis paper describes the first successfully implemented real-time Mandarin dictation machine developed in the world which recognizes Mandarin speech with very large vocabulary and almost unlimited texts for the input of Chinese characters into computers. Considering the special characteristics of the Chinese language, syllables are chosen as the basic units for dictation. The machine is ...

A significant portion of the work time of dentists and nursing staff goes to writing reports and notes. This thesis studies how automatic speech recognition could ease the work load. The primary objective was to develop and evaluate an automatic speech recognition system for dental health care that records the status of patient's dentition, as dictated by a dentist. The system accepts a restric...

We describe a prototype personal dictation system. As a user speaks, the system produces a real-time audio transcript. The user can correct and annotate the transcript using a graphical user-interface (UI) running on a handheld computer. The speech recognition runs on a workstation. Although the two are currently connected via a wired network, a wireless connection is planned. The primary focus...

We read with interest the article by Linder, Schnipper, and Middleton comparing dictation, free-text typing, and structured data entry to quality outcomes. The authors conclude that using dictation appeared to provide a lower quality of care, but that conclusion seems unsupported by the reported results. Most importantly, the authors themselves note that most of the differences found were not a...

A central objective of educational assessment is to maximise the accuracy (validity) and consistency (reliability) of the methods used to assess students’ competencies. Different tests, however, often employ different methods of assessing the same domain-specific skills (e.g., spelling). As a result, questions have arisen concerning the legitimacy of using these various modes interchangeably as...

We report an investigation of individual differences in handwriting latencies and number of errors in a spelling-to-dictation task. Eighty adult participants wrote a list of 164 spoken words (presented in two sessions). The participants were also evaluated on a vocabulary test (Deltour, 1993). Various multiple regression analyses were performed (on both writing latency and errors). The analysis...

Recently, the first commercial dictation systems for continuous speech have become available. Although they generally received positive reviews, error correction is still limited to choosing from list of alternatives, speaking again or typing. We developed a set of multimodal interactive correction methods which allow the user to switch modality between continuous speech, spelling, handwriting ...