[MV] macspeech vs dns

[Chuck Rogers]

Nina (and everyone else):

Just to put my two cents in, iListen learns medical terminology (or  
any other terms) via the Learn My Writing Style function. You can add  
as many words as you like, and the benefit of this method is two- 
fold: 1). it learns the words you use in the context in which you use  
them; and 2). it only learns the words you actually use.

The typical medical vocabulary adds 15,000 words to your individual  
profile. The medical professionals we have spoken to say they use  
between 500 and 1000 words in their particular discipline. We  
literally have dozens of medical professionals dictating all their  
medical terms on a daily basis with no problem. We have a doctor in  
Gainesville who has added 1,800 words to iListen.

One last item is that not only can iListen dictate into ANY Macintosh  
application, but if you also need to use Windows, it can also dictate  
into any Windows application if you are using Parallels or another  
virtualization program. iListen is the only speech recognition  
program in existence that can do that!



Best Regards,

Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
MacSpeech, Inc.




On Sep 19, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Kai-Man Lee wrote:

> Hi Nina,
>
> If you want to do medical dictation, buy the DNS medical professional
> version which has the medical vocabulary included.  It is far  
> superior to
> iListen for this purpose.  You'll need to partition your MacBook  
> Pro drive
> with Boot Camp and install Windows.  Or you could use one of the
> virtualization programs, like Parallels Desktop for Mac.
>
> I am devoted Mac guy,  but for this purpose, it's really a no- 
> brainer - DNS
> is better.  I am an ER physician and have used my laptop for medical
> dictation on and off for a couple years.  The fact that iListen  
> doesn't have
> a medical vocabulary that you can buy puts it out of the running.   
> Teaching
> any dictation program a specialized vocabulary is way too much  
> trouble.
>
> Anyway, that's what I'd recommend.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Kai-Man Lee, MD
>
>
>
>
>> From: "Nina Sugar, MD" <ninasugarmd at mac.com>
>> Reply-To: "A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh."
>> <macvoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:01:45 -0700
>> To: <macvoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: [MV] macspeech vs dns
>>
>>
>>> From: "Nina Sugar, MD" <ninasugarmd at mac.com>
>>> To: <macvoice-owner at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>>> Date: September 16, 2007 01:21:34 AM EDT
>>> Subject: macspeech vs dns
>>>
>>> Help please!
>>> I need to buy a voice recogniton/dictation program for macbook  
>>> pro w/intel
>>> 2ghz core duo processor.
>>> I am running osx v 10.4.10.
>>> What are the pro and cons of macspeech/ilisten vs dns?(I believe  
>>> I would have
>>> to get a windows running program for the DNS, and I am not sure I  
>>> could run
>>> it. I love my mac and the os systems, and have never been able to  
>>> understand
>>> windows)
>>> I need to be able to dictate patient notes,  on a daily basis,  
>>> and writing
>>> has become difficult due to back injuries from being rear ended  
>>> and now wrist
>>> tendonitis. Any information/suggestions /reccomendations would be  
>>> greatly
>>> appreciated. Thanks!!
>>> nina sugar
>>>
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