Real-time Speech Summarization for Medical Conversations
This addresses the need for efficient information extraction in doctor-patient conversations, offering potential business and technical benefits, but is incremental as it builds on existing summarization techniques.
The authors tackled real-time summarization of medical conversations by developing a deployable system that generates local and global summaries, and introduced VietMed-Sum, the first speech summarization dataset for this domain, with baseline results from state-of-the-art models.
In doctor-patient conversations, identifying medically relevant information is crucial, posing the need for conversation summarization. In this work, we propose the first deployable real-time speech summarization system for real-world applications in industry, which generates a local summary after every N speech utterances within a conversation and a global summary after the end of a conversation. Our system could enhance user experience from a business standpoint, while also reducing computational costs from a technical perspective. Secondly, we present VietMed-Sum which, to our knowledge, is the first speech summarization dataset for medical conversations. Thirdly, we are the first to utilize LLM and human annotators collaboratively to create gold standard and synthetic summaries for medical conversation summarization. Finally, we present baseline results of state-of-the-art models on VietMed-Sum. All code, data (English-translated and Vietnamese) and models are available online: https://github.com/leduckhai/MultiMed/tree/master/VietMed-Sum