Just wanted to follow up and share that I’ve been reviewing earlier discussions around voice input and dictation in OpenEMR.
Over the years, there have been several interesting attempts, from experiments with Dragon and CKEditor plugins to open-source tools like Simon and DeepSpeech.
Here are a few past threads, listed chronologically:
• Dragon dictation setup (2009)
• Speech dictation experiences (2017)
• Open-source speech recognition (2017)
• Voice dictation software (2019)
• Voice to Text with AI revision assistance (2025)
Each of these threads shows different angles and motivations, but it’s not clear if any of them led to a long-term solution.
I’m curious, does the community still feel there’s a strong need for voice input in OpenEMR today?
Would love to hear your thoughts.