I'm a radiologist who uses a Nuance product for several hours a day, every day, and my experience has been overwhelmingly positive. Whereas I used to waste a great deal of time editing and correcting mistakes by human transcriptionists, I only occasionally have to manually correct the Nuance transcriptions. Our throughput and efficiency have increased considerably since we started with the product, and there is absolutely no way that I'd ever return to the previous system. The adoption of speech recognition has been the biggest advance in my field since digital imaging, IMO.
Oh, and "when the software is confused it tries to select something that is grammatically plausible"? I don't think so - the software has no concept of grammar.
I have paid subscriptions to a number of newspaper and magazine sites. And they still expect me to put up with obtrusive pop-ups, ads that temporarily obscure content, and so on. Being a paying customer does not protect you from this crap. There is nothing as annoying in the print world.
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I'm a radiologist who uses a Nuance product for several hours a day, every day, and my experience has been overwhelmingly positive. Whereas I used to waste a great deal of time editing and correcting mistakes by human transcriptionists, I only occasionally have to manually correct the Nuance transcriptions. Our throughput and efficiency have increased considerably since we started with the product, and there is absolutely no way that I'd ever return to the previous system. The adoption of speech recognition has been the biggest advance in my field since digital imaging, IMO. Oh, and "when the software is confused it tries to select something that is grammatically plausible"? I don't think so - the software has no concept of grammar.
He is a physician.
I have paid subscriptions to a number of newspaper and magazine sites. And they still expect me to put up with obtrusive pop-ups, ads that temporarily obscure content, and so on. Being a paying customer does not protect you from this crap. There is nothing as annoying in the print world.
I understood the person on the other end wasn't venting at me.
Apparently, you misunderstood.
Some of us are on call from home and have to answer the phone. Some of us have sick family members in other cities too.