In article , dave
wrote:

You'll notice the K3 is the #1 transceiver in every class (depending on
configuration). While it costs twice what the Yaesu does, it can grow
with you. It is made in USA and is the best radio ever made.

WOW !!! - Thanks, that is one serious rig from elecraft.com

Downloaded their pdf file and drooled over the features and spec's.

Egad, everything seemed so simple, now I have to decide what I
_really_ want in a rig.


You know what this means, I will need to park my carcass in the
parking lot of the nearest Walmart, hold up my cardboard sign
begging for money for Ham Radio gear.

I do free volunteer work for the local hospitals here in N. California,
trying to beat them into submission to adopt faster/better ways of
processing their mountains of paperwork.

Presently, most of them still use chisels and clay tablets
to document their medical procedures.

Only about 10% of USA hospitals take advantage of faster
speech recognition processing of data. (SR for brevity)

As a half-vast user of SR myself, I am used to stomping out
medical data on my Macs and PCs by voice, commonly dictating
complex 600 word medical reports with zero text errors
in four minutes time, wrestling phrases such as:

"perioperative transesophageal echocardiography"


Have to admit though, sometimes my tongue gets wrapped around
my eye-teeth so I can't see what I am saying.


Back on topic -
********

Seems the Elecraft K3/100 HF Transceiver would be ideal for
expediting emergency medical data in case of a national
catastrophe - - - one problem might be that FCC reg's do not
allow encryption of sensitive medical data, if I recall correctly.

I expect in a national emergency that FCC edict would
be quickly waived, allowing common sense to prevail.

Mark

On 2010-03-19, Mark Conrad wrote:

medical data on my Macs and PCs by voice, commonly dictating
complex 600 word medical reports with zero text errors
in four minutes time, wrestling phrases such as:

"perioperative transesophageal echocardiography"

Using what awesome software?

nb

In article , notbob
wrote:

medical data on my Macs and PCs by voice, commonly dictating
complex 600 word medical reports with zero text errors
in four minutes time, wrestling phrases such as:

"perioperative transesophageal echocardiography"

Using what awesome software?

Practically any modern SR software.

It is kinda like ham radio, not so much what you have,
but more important is how you use it.

In this case, I used "MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.8" on a 3-year old
MacBook Pro.

Mac has to be one of the newer Intel-based Macs, software
will not run on older Macs.

One can get the same results using "Dragon NaturallySpeaking"
- - - the "Pro" version 10.1 - - - which I also run on my
old Mac hardware, using the Vista OS from Microsoft.

About the only modern speech software that is difficult to
achieve such accuracy and speed is "Windows Speech Recognition",
(WSR) - which comes free with both Vista and Windows-7 OS.


SR is a very inexact science at the present time, best estimates are
that it will take another 20 years before it is anywhere near as good
as a human, when it comes to converting speech to text.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/a...ml?printable=1


Scroll to near the end of the above website, to this sub-section:

"Building HAL 's Language Knowledge Base"

Read all the way to the end, that will give you a good idea
what our children will be doing with SR 20 years from now.



BTW, Nuance (Dragon) recently bought MacSpeech, so they are
all one company now.


A typical newbie SR user will be lucky to get 70% accuracy.

As he gains experience, that will edge up to about 98%.

In restricted speech like medical, where the same phrases like
"perioperative transesophageal echocardiography" are used
over and over again, the raw accuracy will edge up to 99%.

....or in my case 100%, in 3 out of 4 tries on that 600 word
example - - - the bad "4th" try is invariably my fault,
for mis-pronouncing one of the 600 words.


Too much time way OT, but I gave you a decent answer
to your question.

My post immediately following this will show the entire text
of my medical dictation, with 100% raw accuracy, no correction
required, total dictation time 240 seconds.

Mark

Mark Conrad wrote:
In . com, dave
wrote:

You'll notice the K3 is the #1 transceiver in every class (depending on
configuration). While it costs twice what the Yaesu does, it can grow
with you. It is made in USA and is the best radio ever made.

WOW !!! - Thanks, that is one serious rig from elecraft.com

Downloaded their pdf file and drooled over the features and spec's.

Egad, everything seemed so simple, now I have to decide what I
_really_ want in a rig.


You know what this means, I will need to park my carcass in the
parking lot of the nearest Walmart, hold up my cardboard sign
begging for money for Ham Radio gear.

I do free volunteer work for the local hospitals here in N. California,
trying to beat them into submission to adopt faster/better ways of
processing their mountains of paperwork.

Presently, most of them still use chisels and clay tablets
to document their medical procedures.

Only about 10% of USA hospitals take advantage of faster
speech recognition processing of data. (SR for brevity)

As a half-vast user of SR myself, I am used to stomping out
medical data on my Macs and PCs by voice, commonly dictating
complex 600 word medical reports with zero text errors
in four minutes time, wrestling phrases such as:

"perioperative transesophageal echocardiography"


Have to admit though, sometimes my tongue gets wrapped around
my eye-teeth so I can't see what I am saying.


Back on topic -
********

Seems the Elecraft K3/100 HF Transceiver would be ideal for
expediting emergency medical data in case of a national
catastrophe - - - one problem might be that FCC reg's do not
allow encryption of sensitive medical data, if I recall correctly.

I expect in a national emergency that FCC edict would
be quickly waived, allowing common sense to prevail.

Mark

This may be my last solar max (at least without drooling ;-) I figured
my heirs want their dad to have the very best.

In article , dave
wrote:

Seems the Elecraft K3/100 HF Transceiver would be ideal for
expediting emergency medical data in case of a national
catastrophe - - - one problem might be that FCC reg's do not
allow encryption of sensitive medical data, if I recall correctly.

I expect in a national emergency that FCC edict would
be quickly waived, allowing common sense to prevail.

Mark

This may be my last solar max (at least without drooling ;-)
I figured my heirs want their dad to have the very best.

Go for it !

As soon as win the lottery, I am going to do the same.

Mark