Ambient Voice Technology (AVT) has seen a rise of popularity in clinical settings, mainly due to its potential to ease administrative burden by transcribing, and in some cases summarizing client-patient interactions, allowing healthcare professionals to save precious time to focus on patient care.
Unlike traditional speech-to-text tools, AVT leverages machine learning and natural language processing to summarize and interpret spoken language, enabling automatic generation of clinical notes and even integration with EPR (Electronic Patient Record) systems, further streamlining documentation.
These AI-based tools can therefore really make a difference for healthcare professionals, especially in the UK, with the NHS continuing to face staff shortages, with 43% of the NHS staff stated not t