[Experiences with a current speech recognition system in creating cardiology reports]

Development of speech recognition software is at a stage where you can use it effectively for creating cardiological reports or at least parts of it. We were very successful in using the Dragon Naturally Speaking system for our reports and we don't need a secretary for our writings any longer. Very important for effective work is a fast and good PC hardware, especially a good sound system and a sufficient amount of internal memory, also important is patience of the user, because a longer training phase is required. I recommend for own experiences to use the standard version which is cheap and includes all necessary features. Following some fundamental rules anyone can be successful with speech recognition. Development of speech recognition is increasing rapidly so that everyone of us will get in contact with it sooner or later, it would be better to be prepared for it now.