• J. Korean Med. Sci. · May 2022

    Accuracy of Cloud-Based Speech Recognition Open Application Programming Interface for Medical Terms of Korean.

    • Seung-Hwa Lee, Jungchan Park, Kwangmo Yang, Jeongwon Min, and Jinwook Choi.
    • Rehabilitation and Prevention Center, Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
    • J. Korean Med. Sci. 2022 May 9; 37 (18): e144.

    BackgroundThere are limited data on the accuracy of cloud-based speech recognition (SR) open application programming interfaces (APIs) for medical terminology. This study aimed to evaluate the medical term recognition accuracy of current available cloud-based SR open APIs in Korean.MethodsWe analyzed the SR accuracy of currently available cloud-based SR open APIs using real doctor-patient conversation recordings collected from an outpatient clinic at a large tertiary medical center in Korea. For each original and SR transcription, we analyzed the accuracy rate of each cloud-based SR open API (i.e., the number of medical terms in the SR transcription per number of medical terms in the original transcription).ResultsA total of 112 doctor-patient conversation recordings were converted with three cloud-based SR open APIs (Naver Clova SR from Naver Corporation; Google Speech-to-Text from Alphabet Inc.; and Amazon Transcribe from Amazon), and each transcription was compared. Naver Clova SR (75.1%) showed the highest accuracy with the recognition of medical terms compared to the other open APIs (Google Speech-to-Text, 50.9%, P < 0.001; Amazon Transcribe, 57.9%, P < 0.001), and Amazon Transcribe demonstrated higher recognition accuracy compared to Google Speech-to-Text (P < 0.001). In the sub-analysis, Naver Clova SR showed the highest accuracy in all areas according to word classes, but the accuracy of words longer than five characters showed no statistical differences (Naver Clova SR, 52.6%; Google Speech-to-Text, 56.3%; Amazon Transcribe, 36.6%).ConclusionAmong three current cloud-based SR open APIs, Naver Clova SR which manufactured by Korean company showed highest accuracy of medical terms in Korean, compared to Google Speech-to-Text and Amazon Transcribe. Although limitations are existing in the recognition of medical terminology, there is a lot of rooms for improvement of this promising technology by combining strengths of each SR engines.© 2022 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.

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