Physician Dictation Audio Datasets for Machine Learning

Our de-identified dataset for healthcare includes 31 different specialties audio files dictated by physicians describing patients’ clinical condition and plan of care based on physician-patient encounters in the hospital/clinical setting.

Off-the-Shelf Physician Dictation Audio Files:

  • 257,977 hours of Real-world Medical Audio Dataset from 31 specialties’ to train Healthcare ASR models
  • Dictation audio captured from various devices like Telephone Dictation (54.3%), Digital Recorder (24.9%), Speech Mic (5.4%), Smart Phone (2.7%) and Unknown (12.7%)
  • PII Redacted Audio & Transcripts adhering to Safe Harbor Guidelines in conformance with HIPAA

Medical Audio Data by Gender

Speciality
Patient Audio Files (Playtime in Hours)
Total No. of Audio Files
Total
257,977
5,172,766
Male
58,850
2,444,910
Female
113,406
1,290,900
Unknown
85,721
1,436,956

Medical Audio Data by Specialty

Speciality
Patient Audio Files (Playtime in Hours)
Total No. of Audio Files
Pain Medicine
1
11
Podiatric Surgery
4
24
Plastic surgery – specialty
13
183
Physician Asst.
6
38
Physical Therapist
114
1713
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
1347
23523
Pediatrics
877
9271
Pediatric surgery
2
23
Pediatric specialty
35
682
Pediatric pulmonology
4
40
Pediatric Dentistry
15
420
Pathology
1143
43462
PANP
10760
145960
Podiatry
892
12056
Pain Management
2
30
Otolaryngology
995
19548
Osteopathic
310
5566
Orthopedic
4849
145053
Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
149
3165
Oral surgery
1
13
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon
1
8
Ophthalmology
609
19299
OPERATIVE CARE
0
5
Oncology
6816
82300
Occupational Therapist
8
68
Surgery
14431
236788
Wound Care
15
211
Vascular/General
9
268
VASCULAR SURGERY
19
156
Urology
3170
96934
Upper gastrointestinal surgery
4
58
Unknown
42269
748054
Trauma & orthopedics
140
1308
Transplant
3
32
Thoracic surgery
4
37
Thoracic medicine
5
27
Surgical specialty
22
290
Surgery Physician Assistant
0
3
Occupational medicine
79
763
Sports Medicine
3
49
Speech Therapy
29
327
Rheumatology
13
124
Resident
46
641
Rehabilitation
2515
30078
Radiology
10962
630983
Pulmonary
3809
64368
Psychotherapy (specialty)
50
229
Psychiatry
8871
70269
PRIMARY CARE ATTENDING
1
7
Preventive Medicine
21
191
Dental
55
1233
General
26
313
Gastroenterology
3127
62158
Family Practice
262
2498
Family Nurse Practitioner
424
9018
Family Medicine
13639
263480
Endocrinology
219
3212
Emergency Room Specialist
30
378
Emergency
3675
62256
ED Physician Assistant
0
70
Ear, Nose And Throat
51
658
Diagnostic Radiology
255
7591
Dermatology
148
3474
General dental practice
2
25
Critical Care
707
9645
Clinical physiology
50
160
Clinical hematology
0
2
Cardiothoracic surgery
1
10
Cardiothoracic
17
122
Cardiology
67504
1566721
APRN
163
1693
Anesthetics
1
9
Anesthesiology
677
22280
Allergy and Immunology
1152
22202
Accident & emergency
9
359
IH-Industrial Health
73
945
OB/GYN
2424
42739
Nurse Practitioner – Family
9
113
Nurse Practitioner
81
432
Neurosurgery
86
755
Neurology
1476
17786
Neuro/TBI
173
1157
Nephrology
2431
39821
Medicine
5
122
Medical oncology
16
67
Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine And Sleep Medicine
5
102
Internal Medicine And Nephrology
15
111
Internal Medicine
42604
623072
Total
257977
5172766
Hospitalist
99
1493
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
4
41
HIM
0
19
Hematology – Oncology
22
394
Gynecology
4
25
GI
55
550
Geriatric Medicine
461
5323
General surgery
237
2220
General Surgeon
27
893
General Psychiatry
3
36
General medicine
30
327

Medical Audio Data by Device

Speciality
Patient Audio Files (Playtime in Hours)
Total No. of Audio Files
Total
257,977
5,172,766
IPHONE
666
32,382
Digital Recorder
1,659
22,377
Mixed type
69,818
1,408,679
SmartPhone
51,533
1,306,405
SpeechMic
10,329
257,730
Telephone Dictation
120,867
2,071,557
Unknown
3,104
73,636