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Medical Transcription Vs Voice Recognition Software -Avontix



One of the most lucrative career options for graduates that offer a decent salary along with the flexibility to work from home is healthcare documentation. Thousands of graduates have grabbed this wonderful opportunity and are making a fabulous career for themselves. However, there are a set of those who are insecure about medical transcription jobs by comparing t with voice recognition software.

Let’s burst this myth and see how this software impacts the healthcare documentation

Voice Recognition Software: Voice recognition software is a program that is an alternative to the typing on a keyboard. When used, this software makes the words appear on the screen of your computer when you talk to it. This software has been developed with the intent to write faster on a computer and to help the differently abled people. Voice recognition software, also known as speech recognition software usually requires the user to train the program to recognize his/her voice in order to accurately convert the text to speech. The advantage of this program or software is that it can almost instantaneously convert the speech into text and does not need a person to transcribe. Hence, people fear that this would cost their career in healthcare documentation. However, this is not true!

Medical transcription services involve a human who manually transcribes an audio file into a text document that is submitted as a report. As a transcriber is involved and is doing the transcription work the incidence of mistakes and errors is considerably low as compared to that of voice recognition software. When the transcription job is given to a medical transcriptionist, he/she understands the context of speech and uses his/her cognitive capabilities to add pauses and periods in the text and to make any corrections if necessary.

A report prepared by a medical transcriptionist does not require much review and editing and can be processed quickly which cannot happen in the case of voice recognition software reports as these reports have to be again reviewed and edited by a transcriber which may take a longer time.

Hence, candidates who are interested in healthcare documentation need not feel insecure due to the speech recognition software and can definitely make a great career in this field with due diligence and perseverance.

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