ArticleNPJ digital medicine2019
Do you understand the words that are comin outta my mouth? Voice assistant comprehension of medication names.
Article in NPJ digital medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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Abstract
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 (
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