Reporting using online speech recognitionTopic number: 1425414948496

Online speech recognition enables you to complete reports by speaking into a microphone connected to your system. The speech is converted to text.

Prerequisite
The online speech recognition method must be configured for use. It is not available by default.
To report using online speech recognition
  1. Optionally, set Online speech recognition as the preferred method for all reading, reviewing, and sign off tasks:
    1. Select Tools > Options.
    2. In the Options dialog, click Text. txt
    3. From the Preferred reporting method list, select Online speech recognition.
    4. Click Save & close. Save & close

    Even if you do not set Online speech recognition as the preferred method of reporting, once you start a reporting task you can still use this method by selecting More > Reporting method > Online speech recognition from the toolbar on the Report tab (not from the main toolbar).

    If you are using a new recording device, you must open the Audio Wizard by clicking Tools > Audio wizard, and adjust audio settings.

  2. Start a reporting task.

    Reporting tasks include reading, sign off, review, correction, and transcription.

    The Text area opens, displaying report, study, and (if applicable) scanned order information.

  3. On the microphone device, when in Record standby mode, press the Play/Stop button to start/stop dictation (the Record button can also be configured to start/stop dictation).

    Alternatively, from the toolbar on the Report tab, click Record or, if configured, use the foot pedal that triggers the Record action.

    Tip:

    To discard a report after you start a reading task, in the toolbar, click No report needed.

  4. Use your microphone device to dictate the report content in the report sections or to fill in fields at the cursor location.

    To view voice commands, say What can I say.

    WARNING!

    Attempting to remove a selection of text using the Scratch that speech command after stopping a recording does not remove the selected text in the audio file. This also applies when the command is linked to a SpeechMike button. However, using the Scratch that command while recording a dictation does successfully remove text in the report and in the audio file. The Scratch that command successfully removes the last dictated text without selecting it.

    The text that you dictate is recognized and displayed.

  5. Optionally, to restore the text in the report section if selected text has been wrongly overwritten because, for example, a voice command was not recognized as a command but as dictated text, click the Clear button in the report toolbar and select Undo text replacement.

    Important!

    Using this action restores the (wrongly) replaced text in the report, but the sound/audio corresponding to this restored text is lost. So when radiologists or correctionists play the sound file, the sound will not match the restored text.
  6. Navigate between sections if necessary.

    Note that:

    • Some report sections might be defined as read-only, and so are not editable.
    • Initial formatting (such as bold) might be configured for a section and be applied automatically. You can use the text formatting tools to change this.
    • If you copy formatted text from another report section, the original text formatting is preserved.
    • If you copy information from a DICOM SR pane, formatting is not preserved.

    Tip:

    To view DICOM SR panes, you might have to switch to another layout by selecting Text area > Switch layout.

  7. Play back the recording if needed, by pressing the Rewind button on your microphone device. You can correct the recognized text as required.

    Alternatively, from the toolbar on the Report tab, click Rewind or, if configured, use the foot pedal that triggers the Rewind action.

  8. To finish dictation, press the EOL (End of letter) button on the microphone.

    Alternatively, from the toolbar on the Report tab, click Record again or, if configured, use the foot pedal that triggers the Record action.

    Tip:

    To sign off the report and start the next reading task, click EOL twice.
  9. In the EOL dialog, select what to do with the report.

    Options include Sign off later, Sign off, Sign off and print, and send To correctionist or To reviewer.

Required permissions:
  • Can create correction tasks, Can create review tasks, or Can sign off reports
  • Can start reading tasks
(For more on permissions, see Security roles: Concepts.)