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To: Apollo who wrote (29651)	8/8/2000 3:19:27 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

stan, i really don't disagree with you or thomas too much. i think we all see the eventual potential. it will always be difficult to teach old dogs or docs new tricks. :o) let us know when medical school students start to use voice recognition software...that will be a good sign. lhsp has some efforts underway in that direction now. uw

To: Apollo who wrote (29651)	8/8/2000 8:13:11 PM
From: sditto	Respond to of 54805

Two issues around voice recognition and LHSP: Using Gorilla Game venacular, a discontinuous innovation must ideally be vendor discontinuous and user continuous. The problem with voice recognition in the medical field is voice recognition has been delivered as a user discontinuous innovation requiring changes to the way physicians dictate, review, edit, and approve the transcribed document. Only recently have companies begun to apply voice recognition via an ASP model over a network on the "back end' of the transcription process in a manner that is user continuous. However, accuracy problems are still present and require substantial human editing - particularly in academic medical center settings where foreign born dictators are prevalent. On the subject of LHSP - their management has been questioned repeatedly by the financial community and industry watchers. The attached Radio Wall Street link has a rather pointed and inflammatory discussion of LHSP at radiowallstreet.com (followed by a very good discussion of SNDK toward the end which is what initially drew me to the broadcast).

To: Apollo who wrote (29651)	8/9/2000 1:24:56 AM
From: wopr1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Speech Recognition: Interesting that speech recognition came up today: news.excite.com Speech recognition to hit MS Office Updated 6:12 PM ET August 8, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet News Tech gets a voice: New capability to debut in Beta 1 of Office 10, Microsoft's update to its Windows desktop applications suite, which is expected in 2001. Microsoft has notified testers that it has officially launched Beta 1 of the next version of Microsoft Office for Windows, code-named Office 10. Microsoft is adding new features to all of the applications that make up its desktop suite, according to testers. But the most noticeable change toOffice 10 will be the addition of speech capabilities. Word 10 is being enabled with speech to handle both voice dictation and command-and-control scenarios, testers said. Office 10 is the successor to Office 2000 for Windows -- expected to ship next year -- and is expected to be a fairly minor upgrade on the way to Office.Net, the company's next major version of Office. According to Microsoft's .Net roadmap, Office.Net is due to ship some time in the 2002+ time frame. (snip) -wopr