{"slug": "speechmatics-launches-oak-for-medical-speech-that-changes-languages-mid-visit", "title": "Speechmatics launches Oak for medical speech that changes languages mid-visit", "summary": "Speechmatics launched Oak on October 14th, a batch medical transcription model built to follow consultations as patients and clinicians switch languages and speakers. Speechmatics said Oak ranked first in its own 11-language test with 91% medical-term recall, a company-run figure that measures medical-term recall rather than overall transcription accuracy.", "body_md": "# Speechmatics launches Oak for medical speech that changes languages mid-visit\n\n**Speechmatics says Oak ranked first in its 11-language test, though its 91% score measures medical-term recall, not overall transcription accuracy.**\n\n        By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)\n        · Published \n\nPrimary source: [Speechmatics](https://www.speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-news/meet-oak-multilingual-medical-speech-to-text)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nOak takes Speechmatics' medical speech work beyond single-language models toward consultations with language and speaker changes. Its 91% medical-term recall result is company-run and measures a narrower task than overall transcription accuracy.\n\n[Speechmatics](https://www.speechmatics.com/?ref=runtimewire), the Cambridge speech-recognition company founded by neural-network researcher [Dr. Tony Robinson](https://www.speechmatics.com/company/about-speechmatics?ref=runtimewire), launched [Oak](https://www.speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-news/meet-oak-multilingual-medical-speech-to-text?ref=runtimewire) on October 14th. The batch medical transcription model is designed to follow conversations as patients and clinicians switch languages and speakers.…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/speechmatics-launches-oak-for-medical-speech-that-changes-languages-mid-visit", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/speechmatics-oak-multilingual-medical-transcription", "published_at": "2026-10-15 02:18:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 05:46:35.912465+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "natural-language-processing", "ai-products", "machine-learning"], "entities": ["Speechmatics", "Oak", "Tony Robinson"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/speechmatics-launches-oak-for-medical-speech-that-changes-languages-mid-visit", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/speechmatics-launches-oak-for-medical-speech-that-changes-languages-mid-visit.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/speechmatics-launches-oak-for-medical-speech-that-changes-languages-mid-visit.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/speechmatics-launches-oak-for-medical-speech-that-changes-languages-mid-visit.jsonld"}}