Healthcare application for DeepSpeech

ftyers · February 23, 2020, 2:25am

Dear all,

This is a topic moved from DeepSpeech GitHub issues.

Hi. Please excuse my complete lack of experience as I am a 
doctor not a coder. I would like to know whether this 
language model could be used for healthcare application in 
speech recognition? All the healthcare related software is 
closed source and very expensive eg. Dragon. I wonder if 
deepspeech will be a way forward for open source software 
for this.

Do you think there is anyone at Mozilla interested in 
something like this.

I apologise if this is the wrong place to ask this question.

Sorry

kdavis · February 23, 2020, 6:55am

Yes, it is being used. See for example it’s use by Iara Health.

bernardohenz from Iara Health is also on Discourse. You should talk to him about your use cases.

doclr · February 23, 2020, 9:56pm

Thanks @kdavis. How do I message him?
Not sure I have the ability on discourse yet-can’t find it in the options.

kdavis · February 24, 2020, 8:58am

@doclr You should be able to click on his username bernardohenz and a window will open, see the image below, that allows you to send a message to him.

sqripter · February 29, 2020, 6:58pm

Francis,

Thanks for speaking my thoughts. I am a doctor and a coder but would closely follow what those ahead of us have done in terms of getting deepspeech to work in the context of health.

I am located in Kenya.