21. A method comprising acts of: (A) initiating automatic speech recognition processing of a medical dictation to initiate producing a draft medical transcription of at least a portion of the dictation; (B) determining, by at least one processor, features of at least a portion of the medical dictation to produce a feature set comprising a combination of features of the medical dictation, the features being relevant to a quantity of expected transcription errors in the transcription of the at least a portion of the medical dictation; (C) analyzing, by the at least one processor, at least part of the feature set to compute a predicted correction rate associated with the at least a portion of the medical dictation; (D) comparing, by the at least one processor, the predicted correction rate to a threshold; (E) abandoning the automatic speech recognition processing prior to automatic speech recognition processing of all of the medical dictation when the predicted correction rate meets or exceeds the threshold; (F) providing, by the at least one processor, at least a portion of the draft medical transcription to a transcriptionist when the predicted correction rate is below the threshold; and (G) refraining, by the at least one processor, from providing the at least a portion of the draft medical transcription to the transcriptionist for editing when the predicted correction rate meets or exceeds the threshold.
21. A method comprising acts of: (A) initiating automatic speech recognition processing of a medical dictation to initiate producing a draft medical transcription of at least a portion of the dictation; (B) determining, by at least one processor, features of at least a portion of the medical dictation to produce a feature set comprising a combination of features of the medical dictation, the features being relevant to a quantity of expected transcription errors in the transcription of the at least a portion of the medical dictation; (C) analyzing, by the at least one processor, at least part of the feature set to compute a predicted correction rate associated with the at least a portion of the medical dictation; (D) comparing, by the at least one processor, the predicted correction rate to a threshold; (E) abandoning the automatic speech recognition processing prior to automatic speech recognition processing of all of the medical dictation when the predicted correction rate meets or exceeds the threshold; (F) providing, by the at least one processor, at least a portion of the draft medical transcription to a transcriptionist when the predicted correction rate is below the threshold; and (G) refraining, by the at least one processor, from providing the at least a portion of the draft medical transcription to the transcriptionist for editing when the predicted correction rate meets or exceeds the threshold. 24. The method of claim 21 , wherein the act (A) further comprises obtaining the draft medical transcription from an automatic speech recognition system.