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For more than 50 years Philips has been the principal force in delivering dictation and speech technologies to users around the world. Creativity and innovation to improve the interaction between man and machine has always been at the forefront of the company’s mission.

Philips Speech Recognition Systems, with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, develops speech recognition software and specialized recognition vocabularies (ConTexts) for professional applications, with a strong focus on the medical and legal markets. Philips Speech Recognition Systems was the first company to develop a commercially available speech recognition engine that enabled spoken words to be converted into text on a PC.

Speech recognition helps hospitals to streamline their workflows and reduce costs, it provides physicians with better medical data faster, which increases the safety of the patients and reduces medical errors. In several cases, the time required to produce a report has been reduced from 50 to 90 percent. The overall efficiency rises from 5 to 7 percent, as recent evaluations show.

Today the company offers several products to enhance the document creation process using speech recognition and digital dictation, most importantly the award-winning document creation platform SpeechMagic. Decades of experience, a portfolio of 25 recognition languages and more than 150 ConTexts (industry-specific recognition vocabularies), coupled with over 8,000 installations of SpeechMagic in hospitals, practices and law firms, bear testimony to Philips Speech Recognition System’s position as a global market leader.