# digital-health-clinical-asr-setup

Sets up the environment for NVIDIA's Clinical ASR Flywheel, verifies the NVIDIA_API_KEY, installs Python dependencies, and runs an end-to-end smoke test.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1900 installs · ★ 3735
- Author: Ben Randoing
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup

## What it does

This skill handles Stage 1 of the Clinical ASR Flywheel. It has no hidden installer scripts like `setup.py` or `install.sh`. The entire workflow is inlined: disclose outbound data flows, install Python packages, and verify API connectivity.

A valid `NVIDIA_API_KEY` and Python 3.10+ are required upfront, because hosted Magpie TTS and Parakeet or Nemotron ASR run via NVCF at `grpc.nvcf.nvidia.com`. Skipping NVCF halts the workflow immediately. A `DICTIONARY_API_KEY` is optional for Merriam-Webster pronunciation lookups.

Data passed through the pipeline must remain synthetic. Feeding real patient transcripts or protected health information into the pipeline violates governance rules. Once a single sentence completes the round-trip successfully, the environment is cleared for Stage 2.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill digital-health-clinical-asr-setup -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill digital-health-clinical-asr-setup -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill digital-health-clinical-asr-setup -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install NVIDIA/skills digital-health-clinical-asr-setup
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill digital-health-clinical-asr-setup -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills --path skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill digital-health-clinical-asr-setup -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/digital-health-clinical-asr-setup/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- verify NVCF connectivity for Magpie TTS and Parakeet ASR
- install required Python packages for the speech pipeline
- run an end-to-end smoke test before building datasets
- bootstrap Stage 1 of the Clinical ASR Flywheel

## Example prompts
- Set up the Clinical ASR Flywheel and verify my NVIDIA_API_KEY
- Bootstrap my environment for the clinical ASR flywheel
- Run the initial smoke test for Magpie TTS and Parakeet ASR

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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  next_skill: digital-health-clinical-asr-build
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# Clinical ASR Flywheel — Stage 1 (Setup)

> **Agent: this file is the complete Stage 1 procedure.** Do not invoke `find`, `ls`, `rg`, or `grep` looking for an installer or hidden config — there isn't one. The four sections below (outbound-data disclosure, three numbered checks, sibling hand-off) are all required reading; don't skip any. Function IDs, env-var conventions, and the smoke-test gate are inlined further down — answer from what's actually written here rather than from prior Riva/NVCF familiarity.

Stage 1 has one job: prove the user can reach NVIDIA's hosted speech stack with the `NVIDIA_API_KEY` they currently hold. Once a single clinical sentence round-trips through Magpie TTS → Parakeet/Nemotron ASR successfully, the user is cleared to advance to `/digital-health-clinical-asr-build`.

The four-stage flywheel exists to drive down **KER (keyword error rate)** on clinical entities — drugs, procedures, anatomy, conditions, labs, roles. WER averages obscure the failures that hurt clinically; KER is what Stage 3 will measure you against.

There is **no installer script** anywhere in this skill — not `install.sh`, not `setup.py`, nothing hidden. Stage 1 *is* the three steps below: verify the key, install Python deps, run the smoke test. Anything past Stage 1 is composed from sibling skills (`/data-designer`, `/riva-tts`, the inlined Stage 3 ASR recipe, `/riva-asr-custom`). If a user asks "what script installs everything?", answer from this paragraph; don't go searching.

## Outbound data flows — surface before any text or audio is sent
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