Free real-time machine translation apps are unreliable for clinical communication being slow and inaccurate with accents dialects and noise

Free real-time machine translation apps (e.g. Google Translate) are unreliable for clinical communication: their free-text voice translation is slow and difficult to use and its accuracy is degraded by patients' accents, dialects, and ambient noise.

Narrative synthesis #

Evidence here is qualitative (staff/observer report) from an aged-care ward trial; it converges with written-translation accuracy findings elsewhere in the corpus that unsupervised machine translation introduces meaning-changing errors.