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Sphinx for medical transcription?

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Anita A
2009-06-08
2012-09-22
  • Anita A

    Anita A - 2009-06-08

    hi,

    I am home based medical transcriptionist, and was checking if it is possible to use Sphinx to aid my work. I have a set of audio files from a doctor, and the transcribed text. Can I use this for training? I tried reading through the documentation for SphinxTrain etc, but not being from a computer background, I am totally at a loss with all the technical terms etc.

    Could someone please point me to a tutorial/document that describes how I can do this? That is, given a set of audio files from a person and the corresponding transcribed text, train the software to recognize that person's speech in subsequent files?

    Thanks,
    Anita.

     
    • eliasmajic

      eliasmajic - 2009-06-09

      Sphinx is very difficult to use if you cannot program. I suggest you consider Dragon Naturally Speaking the medical transcription version.

      Of course, still check out voxforge and submit your audio for the greater good of society :)

       
    • Nickolay V. Shmyrev

      Hello Anita.

      Sorry, we don't offer an end-user medical transcription software. So you have two choices. Either you need to become a software developer and implement everything. Tutorial will help you get started then:

      http://cmusphinx.org/tutorial.html

      Or, alternatively you could contribute to the VoxForge project:

      http://voxforge.org

      which mainly requires you to do simple manual work like segmentation and checking of the audio and checking the phonetic dictionary. You need to prepare a database - a collection of medical audio split on 3-5 sec chunks with appropriate transcription. Then you need to make this public/accessible to someone who could build help to build you a model.

       

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