Posted on 05/06/2007 4:53:04 PM PDT by blam
Source: American Roentgen Ray Society
Date: May 6, 2007
Voice Recognition Systems Seem To Make More Errors WIth Women's Dictation
Science Daily — There is a significantly higher rate of transcription error in women compared to men when using commercial voice recognition applications, according to a recent study. "Our residency program and department recently made the transition to speech recognition from a digital dictation system," said Syed Ali, MD, lead author of the study. "This prompted us to ask research questions about how to increase our accuracy rates and what factors adversely impacted speech recognition," said Dr. Ali.
Ten radiology residents, five male and five female, were each trained on a commercial speech recognition application. Each resident was asked to dictate a standardized set of ten radiology reports containing a total of 2,123 words. Utilizing a commercial software solution, the generated reports were then compared with the original reports and error rates were calculated. The error rate was defined as the sum of the number of word insertions and deletions divided by the total word count for a given report.
According to the study, error rates in the male population ranged from 0.025 to 0.139 while the error rates in the females ranged from 0.015 to 0.206. The results show a higher rate of recognition error in the females compared to the males.
"The immediate impact of the study for radiologists is an increased level of awareness that women may need to spend more time training on the system than their male counterparts and may have to work somewhat harder to make the system successful," said Dr. Ali. "This could include using macros or actually altering dictation style to increase recognition rates," he said.
"Any efforts to improve recognition rates will have a positive impact on physicians and patients of course by reducing error rates and improving productivity," said Dr. Ali. The full results of this study will be presented on Monday, May 7, 2007 during the American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by American Roentgen Ray Society.
Well that explains alot. I mean if a computer can make mistakes, why can’t I? I am printing this for future self-defense against my girlfriend.
This might be a reason:
“Girls speak faster on average — 250 words per minute versus 125 for typical males.”
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003423.html
Discrimination! We need to lower male voice recognition rates to that of female!
i seem to have the same problem...
Oops! I sense a NOW/ACLU moment here...<.P>
chauvinistic computers? lol
This is too funny.
I’m female and a medical transcriptionist and boy can I vouch for this one!! First off... there are a lot of logical, well-spoken women working as physician assistants, nurse practitioners, therapists of all sorts, and physicians. However, being logical and well-spoken is not a requirement for dictating patient notes. There are also a lot of illogical, completely indecipherable male voices.
However, as a rule the women start out by being more difficult by having higher voices. As our hearing abilities age, we lose the higher pitches earlier than the lower pitches.
However (and here come the flames), on average the females dictate more words, a lot more corrections (”go back and change where I said this to that”), and much less ordered notes than the guys.
The opposite has been true with surgical dictations for some reason - The female-dictated notes I type up for that are better than the guys.(maybe the women that go into this field think more directly and orderly than their internal medicine counterparts).
Voice-recognition systems must be intrinsically male, since they apparently also fail to pay attention to women’s speech...
I just thought of a good idea for a SNL script. Have the voice response system talk back to people in their “dialect”. Black guy from da hood gets a response back in jive, islamic fundamentalist gets response in terrorist lingo, etc. Maybe I should send it in.
Woman say four times as many words a day than men...and during an argument, thst rate soars to ten times more.
Maybe that's why I can't stand to watch a talk show with only women.
The speech/voice recognization chip was invented by a male.
Danger Will Robinson! Go into the bunker!
This is old news and is due in large part to the fact that as is the case with all core technologies, the mathematical algorythms used by the DSP's were developed by men and largely lab tested by men.
I’ve the same prollem. It must be a male thing....
They don’t listen either...
With gusts up to 375 words per minute...
ahh the crux of the problem.. we need more women writing software
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