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Ariella
3/10/2016 8:45:30 AM
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Re: Skype
@Mike Interesting question. Is it any less secure than a standard phone or cell phone? Certainly healthcare providers use those. I do think, though, that for the healthcare businesses that offer live video exams, they would use something else.
mhhf1ve
3/10/2016 11:01:02 AM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
Automated speech translation/transcription is far from perfect. I think Skype also has a transcription feature that also translates foreign languages -- but with all these automated speech services, you're not getting very accurate transcriptions. But they may be good enough for many situations. Think about how well Siri or Cortana understand what you say.... And that's about how accurate these things are now. Maybe Google is slightly better but not amazingly so.
mpouraryan
3/10/2016 11:22:57 AM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
Although not perfect--it is getting close. I was also blown away recently as I saw Google incorporating Dragon-Like Features into Google Docs that I tested recently.
Interesting times...for sure.....
Ariella
3/10/2016 11:27:43 AM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
@mhhf1ve Interesting that you bring that up. I recently did a call with Japan with a translator on that end. The call was recorded, but they are waiting on the transcription. It seems they need a special service for that. The people in Japan had suggested using Skype, but I really did not want to rely on it based on my previous experience with it.
batye
3/10/2016 1:43:13 PM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
@Ariella interesting to know, thanks for sharing...
mhhf1ve
3/10/2016 1:50:28 PM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
Language translation services are getting more sophisticated all the time. There are tons of interesting applications -- like Viki -- where crowdsourced translators are teamed up with software to make translations faster and more accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viki_(website)
Doing it for Korean dramas seems to be a profitable way to spread videos internationally... And it might someday also help to translate/transcribe voicemails, possibly?
mhhf1ve
3/10/2016 1:52:20 PM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
Speech recognition has been around for decades... and I'm surprised at how long Nuance has been dominating the sector. It might not be too long, tho, before some deep learning startup figures out how to do automated speech recognition better than Nuance's tech.
mhhf1ve
3/10/2016 1:54:10 PM
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Re: Skype
> " Is it any less secure than a standard phone or cell phone?"
You might be surprised at what HIPAA covers and what it doesn't. I know a few doctors who don't use SMS, but some HIPAA-approved messaging apps. Calls and faxes are all good for some reason... but SMS? nope.
Ariella
3/10/2016 1:55:14 PM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
@mhhf1ve yes, it can have quite a few applications. Certainly what is largely accessible now needs improvement. When I apply Google translate to text, which I would think should be a bit simpler than building off speech recognition in one lanaguage and translating into another, I still often get something that doesn't read like passable English. I get that the idioms and syntax could throw things off, but sometimes I even know what the words in the other language mean and find the translation rather off.
Ariella
3/10/2016 1:56:59 PM
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Re: Skype
@mhhf1ve there's another reason to ban SMS. I read an account of a nurse who was using her phone for instructions as well as personal use. She got distracted by the personal texts so that she didn't follow up on the direction, which was a pretty crucial step for the patient pre-surgery. The patient survived, but just barely.
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