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I love this. I do a lot of dictation on mobile devices for work, with middling, and perhaps more importantly, frustrating results (needless to say we are worki
by sgc 8y ago
I love this.
I do a lot of dictation on mobile devices for work, with middling, and perhaps more importantly, frustrating results (needless to say we are working on programming our way out of that hole). It is an area ripe for open source progress given the failure of larger companies with large proprietary data sets to make basic common sense decisions in their transcription algorithms, together with no way to provide impactful feedback.
If anybody is interested, there is definitely a market for a more robust dictation library that can be integrated into apps and works offline. It just needs to be professional - e.g. allow for preferences including the ability to indicate a strong preference for standard language and grammar over all slang, not forcing Title Case for anything resembling a brand name, having a training mode for words and phrases of the user's choosing, blacklisting of certain word or phrase results which are false positives, and proper learning from user corrections during use so the tedium of correcting the same phrase 100 times disappears.
- 99052882514569 8y agoThere's also a huge need for better transcription software in radiology. Existing ones are expensive and are just not good enough to be an actual time-saver. (A radiologist friend describes switching from a human medical transcriptionist to one of these "AI" software thingies as a cost-cutting measure by his hospital, or more accurately as a cost-offload measure. Hospital offloads salary, radiologist spends more time correcting stupid transcription mistakes for no extra pay).
- MattSayar 8y agoI thought it would be faster to correct a transcript than type it up fresh. I can type pretty damn quickly, but still slower than the average person talks. I would rather follow along to an AI transcript and correct a few words than type it all new.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoFaster for who? The in the case described above the radiologist does none of the typing and none of the correction.
- jcims 8y agoProblem is that transcription errors never have a misspelling and usually sound ok in yourself nene voice. You have to really pay attention to find them (reading the text backwards a sentence at a time sometimes helps with this)
- derefr 8y agoImagine a professional “assisted stenography” software package. Rather than automatic full transcription + proof-reading after the fact, it would transcribe “live” but with any words where its model gave a low-confidence output highlighted with the expectation that the human stenographer, listening to the audio at the same time the machine is, will type in the correct transcription (or just hit tab to accept, like in autocomplete.)
- jcims 8y agoI would love it if I could always see the top three possible interpretations of what I just said to my phone. It's interesting watching the speech recognition think about what's being said and flip words around once it has enough context.
- chapium 8y agoThats a pretty cynical view, not entirely unjustified. Transcription services are costly, but dictation software offers plenty of other benefits.
- m463 8y agoI wonder if the custom dictionary for applications like this can lead to weird digital-domain errors. I don't know, maybe confusing 'canine' with 'benign'
- sgc 8y agoIt absolutely does! Crazy that apps in general don't you choose your training words and phrases to blacklist, etc.