Amazon's AI-Powered Real-Time Medical Transcription Service Can Be A Gamechanger In Healthcare

On 2 December 2019, Amazon expanded its automatic transcription service for AWS to include support for medical speeches. Transcriptions can be of many types -- for movies and entertainment content, transcribing audio for the hearing impaired, audio for voice-over, etc -- but one of the most essential application is in the field of medical practices. If you have a doctor in the family, you would've seen them spend a significant amount of time talking into a recorder about the medical conditions to document them later. And by later, we mean that there is a medical transcriber who the next day or so and'transcribes' the recording into a format that can be documented and archived. Although you can say that the transcriber removes the unnecessary'eh' and'uhs' from the recording, a transcriber does more than that.