Voice Recognition - Augnito

Dragon and Augnito voice recognition software can be used to dictate reports in Cris, and create standard report templates.

What is Augnito?

Augnito is a cloud-based, Artificial Intelligence (AI) voice recognition engine with integrated medical vocabularies.

How does Augnito work?

Augnito works differently to Dragon in how speech is processed into text. In Dragon speech appears as text in real time as the processing is done on your local PC. In Augnito speech is passed via the Augnito AI recognition engine which is cloud based meaning that text appears when you reach a natural break in speech – i.e. Pause in speech, dictate a comma, dictate a full stop, dictate stop dictation or click the dictation button.

You can start dictating instantly with minimal set-up. There is no need to train and maintain a user profile.

When using Augnito, complete sentences do not appear until you reach a natural break in speech. That is, when you pause; dictate a comma; dictate a full stop; say “stop dictation”; or click the dictation button.

This is different to Dragon where words appear in real time, as the processing is done on your PC, and often requires correction and training.

Augnito takes a little getting used to but, once you have adapted to a slightly different way of working, you should achieve higher levels of accuracy in comparison to Dragon.

Dictation tips for an improved experience

Augnito provides 99% accuracy out-of-the-box and is constantly learning from you to further improve dictation accuracy. Please take a moment to review the following recommendations on best practices to improve audio quality and dictation accuracy:

  • Dictate at a natural pace and volume.

  • Make sure to dictate all punctuation (full stop, comma, hyphen, etc.)

  • Briefly pause before and after saying a voice command.

  • Create Templates to facilitate faster reporting turnarounds.

Microphone best practice

Please take a moment to review the following recommendations on best practices to improve audio quality and dictation accuracy:

  • If using a hand-held microphone: please toggle on / off and do not push and hold to dictate.

  • Apply noise cancelling only if you are in a noisy environment.

  • Hold your microphone 3 - 5 inches away from your mouth for best results.

  • Place the cursor in the field where you want to dictate text.

  • Do not switch off the mic or navigate to a new field or section until your speech appears in the report.

  • Switch your microphone off when you have finished dictating. If left on, your microphone will automatically switch off after five minutes of inactivity.