The OP reminds me of things I see on a daily basis as a medical language specialist. I started as a transcriptionist, i.e., started with a blank page and typed what I heard, but now mostly edit draft text that has been washed through speech recognition (SR) software.

I'm working right now and just had a minor example:
Dictated: "I told the father there may be a minor fracture and I wanted to splint her."
SR: "I told the father there may be a minor fracture and I wanted to splinter."

Here's another:
D: "The patient heard a loud cracking noise."
SR: The patient her allowed cracking noise."

Two words: Job. Security.

I contributed many examples of this stuff to Don Gaynor's humor thread, half unintentional humor by dictators and half SR oopsies. It's on pg. 40 for anyone who wants to have a shufti.

R.

Last edited by Ryszard; 09/30/13 09:04 PM. Reason: The hits just keep on coming!

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