Nuance Receives CitrixReady Certification for Healthcare Speech Recognition
03.11.2010 10:34
The professional speech recognition technology SpeechMagic 7 is “Citrix Ready”. The certification confirms the smooth use of medical speech recognition in Citrix environments in hospitals or other medical facilities, where it runs almost without delay
SpeechMagic 7 supports 23 recognition languages and a large number of medical vocabularies. It includes the latest generation of speech technology, an improved user-specific adaptation, a new SpeechMagic Client, an updated SpeechMagic Workstation, and it also supports Windows 7. The Edit Control Adapter API enables the support of almost all Edit Controls. One-Click Installation enables on-demand installation, significantly reducing the effort required to roll out large systems. SpeechMagic 7 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) measure productivity and lead times for each user and make it possible to optimize the individual application. The initial performance was further improved due to the recognition vocabularies and learning algorithms. Hospitals can use it to build a hospital-wide infrastructure.
From the outset, SpeechMagic 7 was designed for use in thin client environments under Citrix. The software has the status “Citrix Ready” for all relevant use cases (digital dictation, front-end speech recognition, back-end speech recognition) and is recommended by Citrix for use as part of a Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. The corresponding tests ran for Citrix versions XenApp 4.5 and 5.0 and, for 64-bit operating systems, for Citrix XenApp 6.0.
High transfer rates save bandwidth
In order to achieve optimal speech recognition performance under Citrix, Nuance has equipped the SpeechMagic 7 solution with its own Citrix Channel to transmit the sound from the client to the server. The result is optimal audio transfer rates between the clients and the Citrix server, which use the available bandwidth carefully.
“The SpeechMagic 7 codec works with a transmission capacity of approximately 19 kbit per second. That’s a fraction of what other codecs achieve,” emphasizes Mert Öz, Manager Innovations at Nuance Austria.
“The latency between the dictation and the words appearing on the screen is barely noticeable. Most users of SpeechMagic 7 in a Citrix environment don’t even notice that they are running Citrix,” said Öz. The low latency is particularly relevant for the front-end mode, in which doctors dictate and correct the text themselves. Latency times that are too long can seriously disrupt work processes and thus endanger the acceptance of speech recognition by doctors.
The range of hardware partners is becoming broader
In addition to speed, the range of supported microphones and hardware is a second important criterion when selecting speech recognition under Citrix. SpeechMagic 7 from Nuance is broadly positioned here thanks to numerous cooperation partners. It supports microphones from Philips and, from the upcoming release 2, also from Grundig Business Systems. A high level of flexibility is also guaranteed in terms of the computers and the operating systems running on them. SpeechMagic 7 runs under Citrix on both fat clients and thin clients (Windows XP embedded, Linux).