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We have a new product that loads a medical language model to Windows Vista speech recognition on your Vista PC.
here is the press release: www.trigramtech.com/presstrigramtopics.htm
I'm sorry there is not alot of information on the website yet. but, if you check back in the next few weeks we will be updating the information ASAP.
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Joe Buckle
Trigram Technology
trigramtech: We have a new product that loads a medical language model to Windows Vista speech recognition on your Vista PC. here is the press release: www.trigramtech.com/presstrigramtopics.htm I'm sorry there is not alot of information on the website yet. but, if you check back in the next few weeks we will be updating the information ASAP. thanks Joe Buckle Trigram Technology
Very interesting Joe. Vista Voice works very well but lacks the ability to import a vocabularly. Vista Speech also does not work properly with my EMR, following in the steps of the latest Nuance DNS 10. I am assuming that MS, like Nuance, is attempting to "Vendorize," the speech field with respect to Health Care?
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Microsoft has no interest in going after any vertical markets, including the medical field. They are more than willing to supply the tools to support VSR (Vista speech recognition) but considering that Microsoft doesn't charge for the Vista speech engine, it may not be in their best interest to spend a lot of development funds while it is in Nuance's best interest. However, on the flipside of the coin... Microsoft is freely more than willing to help any third party software developers get the job done while Nuance requires the purchase of SDK, the purchase of Technical Support and requires developers, who use their SDK, to only use it in the professional versions of NaturallySpeaking which requires a higher price tag from the end-user. We firmly believe that NaturallySpeaking, is by far, the best game in town but a lot of third-party developers are working with the Vista speech engine and this could be anybody's game down the road.
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digital-doc: Very interesting Joe. Vista Voice works very well but lacks the ability to import a vocabularly. Vista Speech also does not work properly with my EMR, following in the steps of the latest Nuance DNS 10. I am assuming that MS, like Nuance, is attempting to "Vendorize," the speech field with respect to Health Care?
I don't know of any attempt by MS to "vendorize" the speech field. IMHO MS sees speech as a means of input and they will continue to do things that make it popular for developers to add speech to applications. After all, the use of speech would require a Vista PC, so, MS gets to sell a new or upgraded license + any other MS products the user updates.
I have sat on the sidelines for the past few years since i have been under an NDA with Microsoft regarding the testing of our medical topics for Vista. Now that Microsoft has released Trigram from the NDA we can start to distribute our products. The product will imbed a medical language model into the Vista engine and the user can choose that topic from the speech toolbar.
Please be clear, these medical topics are not simply importing a bunch of words into Vista. The Trigram product is a statistical language model containing the medical terminology, proper phonetics and contextual usage by specialty. The control we have over a medical topic in Vista is not available to developers in Dragon or IBM speech engines.
I'm honored to have been able to give feedback to the MS team on the development of this new Vista feature and i think healthcare professionals will be excited at the new medical topics.
>>Microsoft has no interest in going after any vertical markets, including the medical field. <<
I would tend to agree, which leaves me paranoid of sorts. Vista Speech no longer works as it use to, with SP1, and my EMR and at the same time I am reading about DNS not working with EMRs.
WSR doesn't work with Synapse EMR either though Dragon does ... some oddity of how WSR works I guess. I'm not suspecting any conspiracies!
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Microsoft has no interest in going after any vertical markets, including the medical field. They are more than willing to supply the tools to support VSR (Vista speech recognition) but considering that Microsoft doesn't charge for the Vista speech engine, it may not be in their best interest to spend a lot of development funds while it is in Nuance's best interest.
Good points there, and I think you are right on the money. Windows Vista dictation suits the purpose of the average user, non professional that may want to dictate email or Word documents. I did a presentation last wek at the request of a Microsoft Seniors Users group and they chose the topic and that's what they wanted to hear about, how to dictate, and frankly a group of seniors who are going to be very occasional users would be lost with Dragon as I feel it is more for the professional with all the accelerated features, such as dictating and translating later, I like that feature of Dragon a lot.
They have their hands into just about everything else, including protein folding on a Surface Computer for DNA sequencing, and that is wild to see, so I think they somewhat pick and choose what they will market themselves and where they will support software partners by all means. I have been at meetings and heard just that too at Microsoft. They are pretty careful not to step on toes where it is not beneficial. Look at Blackberry phones for a good example, once a big competitor of Windows Mobile, but now Microsoft loves them as it takes 6 connections and licenses to Exchange for one device on the enterprise level versus one with Windows Mobile, 5 more Exchange licenes for each Blackberry that connects. Blackberry also has a very good name and they did start pushing email before Windows Mobile ever thought about it. I remember that well as I sat in many Windows Mobile meetings with all of us asking the same, when will email push come to Windows Mobile.
As you mentioned though too, they do open the doors to developers freely, and in every area so as markets and things change, who knows exactly what lies down the road too. Nuance has done a very good job of connecting with the medical world and with the recent acquisitions, it grows stronger. I had a guy from USC on Twitter asking me about another division of Nuance, Powerscribe, used at hospitals the other day and referred him to Harvard/Beth Israel in Boston to gather some feedback as this installation was brand new there and he was looking for some information on people who were already using it, so there's a lot going on with Nuance beyond the basic Dragon software too.
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trigramtech:We have a new product that loads a medical language model to Windows Vista speech recognition on your Vista PC. here is the press release: http://www.trigramtech.com/
This is great news for the medical community and the small individual practice that cannot afford the $1500.00 or so for Dragon Medical. When you add the $15.99 WSRToolkit you have most of the functionality of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The WSRToolkit adds:
1.Text Macros
2.Command Macros (step by step)
3.Macro Editor window for editing or creating script macros
4.Train From Text allows you to select the text of your choosing and read it to train the 'Acoustic Model' of your speech profile
5.Add To Dictionary provides an easy way to add words or phrases to your personal speech dictionary
6.Add From File parses MS-Word and Text documents of your choosing for increased dictation accuracy
7.Transcription reads your wave (.WAV) file and transcribes it to text.
It was mentioned that WSR would not work in somebody's medical record software. I'm not guaranteeing this will work, but someone called us last week with the same problem. We had them right click on the speech bar in WSR, choose Options, place a checkmark next to Enable dictation everywhere and they were able to dictate to a non standard window.
One poster insists on using the term VSR for the Windows™ Speech Recognition product. Microsoft itself calls it WSR. Even David Pogue the NY Times Technology editor calls it Windows Speech Recognition on his Blog - September 5, 2008 in Talk Is Cheap(er). Apparently they expect the product to be in future versions of the operating system and not just Vista.
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mmarkoe: It was mentioned that WSR would not work in somebody's medical record software. I'm not guaranteeing this will work, but someone called us last week with the same problem. We had them right click on the speech bar in WSR, choose Options, place a checkmark next to Enable dictation everywhere and they were able to dictate to a non standard window.
Good hint .. that works for me!
Yes, that should work, I forgot about that myself as I am on auto pilot half the time and forgot about that one little detail in the settings. Normally you see that the first time when you set speech recognition up, and it's easy to breeze by it and not check the box and miss it.
gchiu: mmarkoe: It was mentioned that WSR would not work in somebody's medical record software. I'm not guaranteeing this will work, but someone called us last week with the same problem. We had them right click on the speech bar in WSR, choose Options, place a checkmark next to Enable dictation everywhere and they were able to dictate to a non standard window. Good hint .. that works for me!
I wish it worked for me. The curious part is it use to work before SP1.