15. An automatic transcription system for processing a medical dictation, the system comprising: at least one processor programmed to: initiate automatic speech recognition processing of a dictation to initiate producing a draft transcription of at least a portion of the dictation; compute a correction rate prediction for the at least a portion of the dictation by analyzing a plurality of features of the dictation, the correction rate prediction indicating a quality of the at least a portion of the dictation for production of the draft transcription; use the correction rate prediction to determine whether to abandon the automatic speech recognition processing prior to automatic speech recognition processing of all of the at least a portion of the dictation; and produce the draft transcription for editing if and only if the correction rate prediction for the at least a portion of the dictation meets a criterion.
15. An automatic transcription system for processing a medical dictation, the system comprising: at least one processor programmed to: initiate automatic speech recognition processing of a dictation to initiate producing a draft transcription of at least a portion of the dictation; compute a correction rate prediction for the at least a portion of the dictation by analyzing a plurality of features of the dictation, the correction rate prediction indicating a quality of the at least a portion of the dictation for production of the draft transcription; use the correction rate prediction to determine whether to abandon the automatic speech recognition processing prior to automatic speech recognition processing of all of the at least a portion of the dictation; and produce the draft transcription for editing if and only if the correction rate prediction for the at least a portion of the dictation meets a criterion. 17. The automatic transcription system of claim 15 , wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to produce a draft transcription for a portion of a dictation based on the correction rate prediction for a portion of the dictation.