[siby]

I would say that this is an unnecessary panic that is created by anand33.  We heard of ASR around 10 or 12 years ago with the Dragon Software and even now there are a lot of clients who prefer physical transcription and DU and even in the ASR, there are a lot of mistakes which are critical to patient care, which the QA has to correct.  So all this stuff about virtual scribe will take another 15 or 20 years to come by because it is a really foolhardy idea and the doctors are aware that they are hazarding patient care if they let any xyz transcribe a medical report based on a doctor-patient conversation alone.  and even if it is stored in the Cloud, as someone has commented, it will take a lot of production time and no MT is a fool to sit the whole day listening to the conversation to type a single report..unless the client is ready to pay Rs. 5000 per report. and I am surely aware that the providers line Mmodal or whoever are also aware that are handling useless stuff.  So, the mts or DUs who are doing a good work now need not panic and concentrate on earning more lines because this idea will not materialize to its full extent for another decade or two and even then there will be a lot of glitches.  So live in the present and dont panic thinking about the future.... As a thought aside, I would like to ask all the mts who have participated in this conversation.... which job is stable in this present scenario?  you might have heard that Microsoft has laid of thousands of employees and Qualcom is about to throw out a few thousands... and yahoo has already thrown out many long ago ...and toyota India has thrown out many .....and the thousands who are laid off by IT companies because their performance did not meet the benchmark.....this is about the "prestigious" companies that we dream to join.... don't even try to imagine the lakhs of people rendered unemployed because of shutdown of smalltime companies... You are lucky to have a job, so respect your job and thank God that you are still employed