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Engineering·JAN / 12 / 2026·14 min

Transcribing Brazilian Portuguese radiology jargon is different.

Why generic speech models fail in radiology and what domain training changes in the output.

ML Team, Laudos.AI

General speech recognition is not the same problem as radiology dictation. Anatomical language, measurements, abbreviations, dictated corrections, and double negatives create a domain where generic models fail in clinically meaningful ways.

The problems are specific.

  • Technical vocabulary rarely appears in general corpora.
  • Measurements must become structured clinical notation.
  • Implicit punctuation has to be inferred from reporting context.

The useful path was not piling rules onto a generic model. We trained for the domain and added controlled vocabulary so each radiologist can keep the output predictable.

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