A Comprehensive Analysis of Speech Recognition Systems in Healthcare: Current Research Challenges and Future Prospects

The primary purpose of the article is to explore and highlight the benefits of the automatic speech recognition system in the healthcare sector. Healthcare is only one of the many industries that have benefited from the tremendous breakthroughs brought about by pervasive computing. The rising use of speech-processing technologies is one of the most notable. In this work, we discuss how speech recognition can benefit healthcare in multiple ways. Also, voice signal analysis can be used to aid in early identification and tracking the progression of illness conditions over a period. This article gives comprehensive prospects—on work accomplished in speech recognition system in the healthcare domain and a widespread view towards this specific research area. This article also covers different speech recognition software used in the healthcare domain for various purposes and various datasets used by different researchers for healthcare. This article aims to present a comprehensive analysis of various applications of the healthcare domain using speech recognition and further summarize a synthesis analysis based on the research findings and various speech feature extraction techniques for health speech data for recognition and transcription. The article gives conscious and constructive assistance to researchers working in speech recognition systems in healthcare.