Do you understand the words that are comin outta my mouth? Voice assistant comprehension of medication names.

Health care Signs and symptoms

Journal

NPJ digital medicine
ISSN: 2398-6352
Titre abrégé: NPJ Digit Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101731738

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 22 02 2019
accepted: 30 05 2019
entrez: 16 7 2019
pubmed: 16 7 2019
medline: 16 7 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

This study investigated the speech recognition abilities of popular voice assistants when being verbally asked about commonly dispensed medications by a variety of participants. Voice recordings of 46 participants (12 of which had a foreign accent in English) were played back to Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple's Siri for the brand- and generic names of the top 50 most dispensed medications in the United States. A repeated measures ANOVA indicated that Google Assistant achieved the highest comprehension accuracy for both brand medication names (

Identifiants

pubmed: 31304401
doi: 10.1038/s41746-019-0133-x
pii: 133
pmc: PMC6586879
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

55

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interestsThe authors declare no Competing Interests.

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Auteurs

Adam Palanica (A)

Labs Department Klick Health, Klick Inc., Toronto Ontario, Canada.

Anirudh Thommandram (A)

Labs Department Klick Health, Klick Inc., Toronto Ontario, Canada.

Andrew Lee (A)

Labs Department Klick Health, Klick Inc., Toronto Ontario, Canada.

Michael Li (M)

Labs Department Klick Health, Klick Inc., Toronto Ontario, Canada.

Yan Fossat (Y)

Labs Department Klick Health, Klick Inc., Toronto Ontario, Canada.

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