Michael Bliss

You will receive industry leading Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software uploaded on your laptop, hardware accessories (microphone, device and learning materials) and the guidance of industry expert Michael Bliss and trained assistants to help you feel comfortable with this new endeavor.
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Michael Bliss MA has 8 years' experience teaching speech recognition to healthcare professionals and is author of Speech Recognition Technology for Health Professions, published by Prentice Hall.He is a certified instructor of Dragon Naturally Speaking and has been a featured SR instructor at numerous health IT-related conferences, including Medical Records Institute's Towards the Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) Conference.He will be supported by special assistants during the 'hands-on training' portion of the program.

Michael Bliss, Bliss Enterprises

Market Partner Michael Bliss of Bliss Enterprises is on the ASTM subcommittee dealing with standards development for speech recognition and dictation.

NOTABLE AND QUOTABLE

"Have you heard Mike?Could be.Mike is a professional reader, and he's everywhere these days.On MapQuest, the Web-based map service, he'll read aloud whatever directions you ask for.If you like to have AOL or Yahoo! e-mail read aloud to you over the phone, that's Mike's voice you're hearing.Soon Mike may do voice-overs on TV, reading National Weather Service forecasts.But don't expect to see Mike's face on the screen: He's not human.He's a computer voice cobbled together from prerecorded sounds--arguably the most human-sounding one yet.

"Introduced in 2001 by AT&T Labs, Mike is fast becoming a start voice of text-to-speech technology, which converts written words into spoken language.
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You can purchase Mike and other "natural voices" for only $49/voice font.

Michael Bliss

Michael Bliss has 23 years of experience in the Teaching and Training Profession and 8 years experience of training health professionals in the use of speech recognition technology (SRT).Michael holds a BA in Psychology, a MA degree in Teaching with postgraduate research in the Learning Technology Center at Vanderbilt University.He developed the nation's first SRT college credit course/curriculum for the Medical Transcriptionist (MT) at Chattanooga State Technical Community College.Michael is the author of "Speech Recognition Technology for Health Professions" published by Prentice-Hall.

Michael has appeared in numerous newspaper articles publicizing speech technology as well as presented to professional groups including the keynote presentation at Tennessee State Court Reporters annual conference.He appeared as a lead speaker at Tennessee's Tech 2020 Technical Exposition - Speech Recognition Technology: The Future of Voice (09/20/01).He is a Dragon Certified Instructor (#029 Issued June 1998).

Michael is on the ASTM sub-committee writing the national standards on SRT for Health Care.

Michael enjoys running, weight lifting, playing the Guitar and prides himself on his Natural Instigator Cerebral Tsunamis (NICT) personality trait."Watch out ...

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