SpeechMagic Voice Recognition End of Life Support

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Hi All,

Anyone using SpeechMagic voice recognition software for reporting? It will reach end-of-life support at end of December 2025. I would like to hear what other Trusts are doing to mitigate the risk, are you continuing to use it or moving to a new VR solution? Thank you

Farouk

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We still use SpeechMagic 7 at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, looking to move to Solventum M-Modal Fluency, awaiting a demo.

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Hi,

We’re moving to MModal as well in early 2026. Have seen demos I think Cambridge uses it already?

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Thanks for your quick response @Jagd @Rad_PM What PACS/RIS are you using for SpeechMagic, we use Soliton Reporting+

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We use the same.

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Cheshire & Mersey would be interested in your experiences with MModal and the transition from your current VR as we will also be moving to this later in 2026

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Thank you to all that have replied. Out of interest, for those of you using Solventum M-Modal Fluency, are you paying a fee-per-study reported? Thanks

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My understanding is the pricing model is per user per annum and is v competitive compared to DMO

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I’ve seen some items to consider about the ‘newer’ breed of providers (not specifically any brand):

  1. Voice processing was done in the cloud - no local fallback in case of outages.
  2. Price per exam = price for report + another cost for addendum + another cost for multi-modality reports.
  3. Bundle pricing (e.g. by a RIS provider) will of course by necessity be an over-estimate on their part - potential ‘wasted costs’.
  4. ‘Loose Language’ allowed for reporting in other languages with ‘automatic’ translation (queries over whether this was permissible as the actual signed report had not been checked post translation).
  5. Dynamic adaption = person transcribing from the recorded file (remember SpinVox, purchased by Nuance…..)
  6. ‘Patient friendly’ / ‘simple language’ AI summaries - still unchartered waters here in the UK, but possibly would be good for the NHS App pushed reports (patients do ask ChatGPT for AI summaries of reports anyway).

These aren’t necessarily bad things, just things to consider with the newer breeds of VR that have popped up recently.

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Thanks Alex, very useful information to consider!

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