A STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE

• Doctors in the US speak into a voice recorder, dictating their patient's medical report
• His voice goes to a central computer
• The voice is converted into digital signals, which are beamed up to a communication satellite
• Data received from the satellite is transcribed into written form in India
• Transcribed reports are bounced back to US as digital signals via satellite
• After being processed by the central computer again the data reaches the doctors' table the next morning as a printed report