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Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Clinical Communication

Background:

  • Emergency services face challenges communicating with patients lacking a common language.
  • Existing solutions like machine translation and fixed-phrase translators have limitations in reliability, confidentiality, and usability.
  • BabelDr, a novel speech-enabled fixed-phrase translator, was developed to address these communication barriers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate BabelDr's effectiveness in enabling doctors to conduct diagnostic interviews and reach correct diagnoses in emergency settings.
  • To analyze doctor-system interaction via text and speech.
  • To determine the utility of speech as a communication modality within BabelDr.

Main Methods:

  • A crossover study involving 12 French-speaking doctors at Geneva University Hospitals.
  • Doctors used BabelDr for diagnostic interviews with standardized Arabic-speaking patients presenting with nephritic colic (male) and cystitis (female).
  • Participants diagnosed patients solely through BabelDr and completed a satisfaction questionnaire.

Main Results:

  • All doctors successfully reached the correct diagnosis using BabelDr.
  • The system was perceived as helpful, though some doctors felt limited in their questioning.
  • Speech was predominantly used over text, confirming its importance, with increased text use correlating with speech interaction failures.

Conclusions:

  • Speech-enabled fixed-phrase translators offer a viable alternative for emergency medical communication when interpreters are absent.
  • BabelDr demonstrates potential for reliable patient information gathering in critical, multilingual scenarios.