This article discusses ways to control the formation of linguistic competence students non-linguistic directions training in modern conditions teaching foreign languages. Special attention is paid such types as dictation, test, translation tasks and mental map, which can be effectively used both part current during final certification. There are different dictations: bilingual, monolingual, con...

This paper introduces a usability study of digital dictation procedure in which a task-originating modelling method, called interaction sequence illustration (ISI), was used for analysing interaction steps and stages. The analysis was conducted from the physician’s viewpoint in a real-life clinical environment. Study results showed that the observed process of digital dictation is inefficient a...

In this work, we present the creation of the first Greek Speech Corpus and the implementation of a Dictation System for workflow improvement in the field of journalism. The current work was implemented under the project called Logotypografia (Logos = logos, speech and Typografia = typography) sponsored by the General Secretariat of Research and Development of Greece. This paper presents the pro...

INTRODUCTION A thorough and accurate admission medical record is an important tool in ensuring patient safety during the hospital stay. Surgeons' performance might be affected during night shifts due to sleep deprivation. The aim of the study was to assess the quality of admission medical records during day, evening and night time. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 1,000 admission medical recor...

PURPOSE To investigate the perceptual-auditory and orthographic performances of students regarding identification of contrasts among the fricatives of Brazilian Portuguese, and to investigate the extent to which these two types of performances are related. METHODS Data from perceptual-auditory and orthographic performances of 20 children attending the two first grades of elementary education ...

The word error rate (WER), commonly used in ASR assessment, measures the cost of restoring the output word sequence to the original input sequence. However, for most CSR applications apart from dictation machines a more meaningful performance measure would be given by the proportion of information communicated. In this article we introduce two new absolute CSR performance measures: MER (match e...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Korean language-specific dysgraphia and unilateral spatial neglect in 31 right brain stroke patients. All patients were tested for writing errors in spontaneous writing, dictation, and copying tests. The dysgraphia was classified into visuospatial omission, visuospatial destruction, syllabic tilting, stroke omission, s...