How is Tali different from Dragon?
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Dragon (by Nuance Technologies, acquired by Microsoft) and Tali AI are two companies that focus on saving physicians’ time by using Speech-to-Text technologies. Although they might appear similar on the surface, Tali AI and Dragon are two very different solutions to physician burnout.
History
Dragon was established over 10 years ago, serving not just the medical community, but anywhere where there was a requirement for voice-to-text translation. Being an early player in the market, Dragon could gain a big portion of the Medical Dictation market. Because at the time most of the machines in hospitals and healthcare organizations didn’t have a microphone, they required organizations to purchase hardware to act as the microphone as well.
They built on classic stacks of Natural Language Processing algorithms and Speech-to-Text technologies to help physicians dictate their notes into the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). Physicians would have to use commands like “period”, “new line”, “comma”, etc. to format their text.
Tali AI on the other hand is a Canadian solution that is more than a dictation tool. Tali is a voice-enabled virtual assistant for physicians and dictation is only one of the ways in which Tali helps physicians save time. But for the purpose of this comparison, we will only compare Tali’s dictation feature to Dragon Medical One.
AI technology behind Tali and Dragon
Tali is based on more advanced Natural Language Processing models that are trained specifically on very large sets of medical terminologies. These models are therefore specialized in understanding medical terms.
Newer Speech-to-Text algorithms is trained on trillions of data points from people speaking with different accents. As a result, Tali’s out-of-the-box performance is already much more accurate than what a classic NLP algorithm can deliver. In addition, Tali gets smarter with every new user interaction which makes it very personalized to each physician after only a few interactions.
