Nuance, a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, has come out with a new Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10, a speech-to-text software, with Indian English accent. The new software may prove to be a boon in the field of diagnosis as it will help in making quicker diagnostic reports by scrapping the time taken for transcription of medical analysis.

Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world.

“Usually, diagnosis report takes a day or two to reach the doctor or the patient. Once the tests are done, doctor analyses the tests and then dictates the conclusions to a typist who transcripts the information into report. Therefore, it becomes a time-consuming process and reports are delayed. Naturally Speaking enables analyser to directly dictate the conclusions into the dictaphone and voice is transformed into text within fraction of seconds and a report can be prepared within few minutes. So the patients can collect the reports faster and doctors can start treatment as quick as possible,” explained Manish R Goenka, head of Marketing, ICONS (the national distributor of Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10 in India).

To get started with the software usage, the users have to get it installed in computer and have to read out a paragraph in the dictaphone. The paragraph is provided along with the software. This process helps the software to identify the way user pronounces. The software is then ready to use.

The software comes with wireless digital recorder (dictaphone) that sends the speech to the software and the software types it into word format. With a built in medical vocabulary of over 250,000 words Dragon naturally speaking medical solutions has a full grasp of medical terminology enabling the physicians to dictate in real time into their Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and instantly review, sign and make their notes available for other clinicians. The EMR support helps to quickly navigate history of present illness, Review of systems, assessment and plan thus speeding up the turnaround time and also generating more thoughtful and substantially better documents.

Furthermore, this software can be installed in any windows based application. This software has the ability to avoid background noises and the dictation can be paused if needed. It can be corrected manually if needed and a total of 80,000 words can be added to the software.