Press release: Perch publishes three open releases for checking drug names in dictation

NEW YORK, October 21, 2026: Perch, a veterinary scribe made by Talcoe LLC, today published three open releases for checking drug names in dictation. They are a tool that scores a drug list against the audio, a table of how veterinary drug names are said and misheard, and six sets of blind test dictations. All three are public on GitHub. Code is under Apache 2.0 and data is under CC BY 4.0.

The phoneme lane is the tool (release v0.1.0). It scores a clinic's drug list against the sounds in a dictation, not against the transcript. On one clip read by a synthetic Kokoro voice, a transcript spelled famotidine "famitidine," maropitant "meripitin" and Entyce "Entice." The lane's top four names were famotidine, morphine, Entyce and maropitant, and all four were said. That is one clip, not a measurement.

Vet drug pronunciations is the table (release v1.0.0). It lists 265 drug and brand names used in veterinary practice. Each name has two pronunciations written by software and three suggested by a language model, in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet. Of the 265 names, 66 are on Perch's default list. For 59 of those, a garble atlas lists the wrong words that speech recognizers wrote when synthetic voices said the name. Atenolol, for example, came out as "8 nilal."

Perch blind dictation corpora are the test rows (release v1.0.0): six sets of 70, each written by an author who never saw Perch's matching code. In every set, 45 are dictations and 25 are traps, built to bait a system into offering a drug nobody said. Three synthetic Kokoro voices read each of the 420 rows. That makes 1,260 clips and about five hours of audio, posted as release assets on GitHub.

On October 2, Perch published its trap set, 70 clips built to catch a scribe writing a drug nobody said, with a written account and a video.

"A company's own results are a claim until someone else can rerun them. So we are publishing the sentences we score Perch on, the table our matcher reads and the tool we built for the names it still missed. Run your own system against them and tell us what it misses," said Mohammed Usama, cofounder of Talcoe LLC.

All audio behind these releases is synthetic. Kokoro voices read every sentence, and none of it is a recording of a clinician in an exam room. Real speech will move the results. The phoneme lane nominates names and does not chart them. Ordinary English can fit a drug name, so the lane belongs behind the context rules a transcript already goes through. These are Perch's own tests, run by the company that makes Perch, and they are not an accuracy claim about any product.

About Perch

Perch is a veterinary scribe made by Talcoe LLC. A veterinarian talks through the visit and Perch drafts the note in SOAP, DAP or BIRP for them to review and sign. If a drug name in the dictation cannot be matched to a known term, Perch leaves it out of the note instead of filling in a best guess. Audio is processed in the cloud and never retained. Perch runs in the browser, and the public demo at perch.talcoe.com/demo needs no account and records nothing.

About Talcoe LLC

Talcoe LLC is a two person company in New York that builds software for veterinary practices. Its cofounders are Mohammed Usama and Mustafa Nisar. The company publishes the tests it scores its own product on, so a reader can check the work instead of taking the company's word for it.

Press contact

Mohammed Usama, cofounder, Talcoe LLC. Email: mo@talcoe.com.

The full article, with method notes, is at perch.talcoe.com/news/three-open-releases.