Transcribing medical documents accurately into pre-defined formats and within certain time frames is vital for administrative and medical purposes in any hospital. This paper describes quantitative models incorporating available data to represent transcription activities of a medical records department. We forecasted the workload of the department, determined the optimal worker schedule and des...

We present a methodology that takes as input scanned documents of typed or hand-written text, and produces transcriptions of the text as output. Instead of using OCR technology, the methodology is game-based and produces such transcriptions as a by-product. The approach is intended particularly for languages for which language technology and resources are scarce and reliable OCR technology may ...

This paper describes first results of our DARPA-sponsored efforts toward recognizing and browsing foreign language, more specifically, Serbo-Croatian broadcast news. For Serbo-Croatian as well as many other than the most common well studied languages, the problems of broadcast quality recognition are complicated by 1.) the lack of available acoustic and language data, and 2.) the excessive voca...

This paper summarizes our recent progress in improving the automatic transcription of Arabic broadcast audio data, and some efforts to address the challenges of the broadcast conversational speech. Our efforts are aimed at improving the acoustic, pronunciation and language models taking into account specificities of the Arabic language. In previous work we demonstrated that explicit modeling of...

One of the components of the text-to-speech synthesis system is the database of sounds. Two Lithuanian diphone databases in the MBROLA format are presented in this paper. The list of phonemes and the list of diphones necessary for Lithuanian text-to-speech synthesis are described. The problem of phoneme combinations that are not used in the Lithuanian language is dealt with in the work. Also, t...

Volume 8(2): 006 (2016)-06 In their interesting paper entitled “A systematic Review on Medication Errors”, Karthikeyan et al. performed a systematic literature review about medication errors in prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, administrating and documenting, in order to identify the main contributory factors involved. Given the heterogeneity of the studies they considered, they did not st...

This research investigated the use of trilingual languages by Gayonese and Bataknese teachers in teaching English. study used theory Sapir-Whorf hypothesis applied a qualitative method. The data were obtained from videos taken classroom. They analyzed transcribing spoken language into written form, identifying classifying them sentences, calculating sentences each to find out frequency predomin...