This paper describes an application of speech recognition and synthesis aimed at simplifying the procedure of creating medical reports. The hardware configuration consists of a PC equipped with 2 boards, devoted respectively to speech synthesis and recognition. The system, which has been specialized for radiology, permits to dictate a report in isolated word mode, using a vocabulary which contains about 97% of the words found in a large corpus of radiological reports. To allow fast creation of reports for normal cases or for frequent pathologies, the system permits to use coded sentences which can be directly called or, alternatively, identified by means of a simple question/answering procedure.
Cite as: Billi, R., Buttafava, P., Stefani, P.D., Gamba, M., Voltolini, D. (1991) Computer-aided, voice-based, medical report preparation: an application to radiology. Proc. 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1991), 961-964, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1991-230
@inproceedings{billi91_eurospeech,
author={Roberto Billi and P. Buttafava and P. De Stefani and M. Gamba and D. Voltolini},
title={{Computer-aided, voice-based, medical report preparation: an application to radiology}},
year=1991,
booktitle={Proc. 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1991)},
pages={961--964},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1991-230}
}