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General ? about meeting LPH quota - Waiting2Retire

Posted: Feb 19, 2015

Just a general question. I'm not asking for and really don't want to start something.....I would just like to know......if you are working for a national company and their line per hour requirement is 260, do you make, or exceed, it? And, if so, do you find it extremely difficult or fairly easy to achieve. This would be on an average evening where you don't run out of work and most of the work comes easy but you still have a few honkers. Thanks!

Ouch! - zany

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My opinion, that is extremely high for a minimum requirement.

I kind of think so too, but it is what it is. - Waiting2Retire

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The company I work for is all good except for that one thing. They are VERY tough to get in with and I'm going to be on my way back out very fast if I don't figure this out....and soon. :-(

Meeting LPH - Disappointed

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Our minimum LPH is 250 and I can usually do better than that barring any bozo dictators. I just found out recently that my state minimum wage has gone up so that means I now must do 252 LPH to meet the minimum wage. I think that stinks really. Why should I be punished for something like that ? My answer to my MTSO was to pay me a decent rate and we wouldn't have to worry about not making minimum wage.

LPH quota - Anon

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I find it easy to meet the 260 LPH requirement even with bad dictators. I am usually well over that requirement.

Another ? then? - Waiting2Retire

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May I ask how old you are and if you obtained any official training (other than company) for ASR? My point with the questions is this....I'm an oldie, trained only for typing. Although I've stayed with the times on most everything else and been able to carry my load, ASR and a LPH quota of 260 per hour is kicking my BUTT! I'm trying to find out if I'm simply washed up, if the newbies are being trained in this, and if they know some tricks that I don't and can't find any information on. Back in the day, MTs kept their tricks secret, so I know the drill. I'm not a dummy and surely willing to learn a new way. I know the basics. I just can't figure out why I can't master this and it's reaaaallly starting to bug me. I've always been able to do absolutely anything! But, not this.

If you can do 260 or more easily, then I want to know how ya do it? LOL.... I thank you for your time in reading this and answering. :-)

LPH - MTofOld

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It really depends on what system you're working on. When I used to work on Escript, I was making between 400-500 lph, but for the past few years I've been working on Fluency, and I'm lucky if I can average 250 (I can get 300+ with a good run of dictators (but what is the likelihood of that happening all the time)! I make shortcuts for all repetitive phrases, meds, and even abbreviations so that I could just write them in lower case and let them expand how they're supposed to be. I even make expansions for docs who say the same thing or those who like to mumble through their PEs or ROS and just make changes as I go along. The only way you're going to get even close to your goal is to make shortcuts and just accept the fact that your speed is still going to depend on the quality of the draft. Hope this helps!

Another ? then - Anon

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I am 49. I did not receive any official training for ASR, my only training came from the company I work for and that training was far from extensive. I was hired for transcription and all of a sudden ASR was thrown at me. If I wanted to continue to support my family I had no choice but to learn how to make money editing reports instead of transcribing them. I wish I could tell you my "secret" but I don't really have one.

You could not be any more ole school than - me but training for VR?

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Easy as falling off a log backwards. There is no training. If you can type, use a keyboard, there are no secrets at all. I never switched from a mouse to the keys only, never and VR is so simple. There was nothing to master for me, absolutely nothing. Just read the lines as the person dictates, when you see an error correct it, spell check and done.

It took me 2 months...SM - Anon

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to get to my company's 250 lph. My quality was good and my lines kept getting higher so they stuck with me. I had never done ASR before and it is a different skills set than straight transcribing. Remember when you first started MT? You probably weren't as fast as you are now. Same with ASR, the more you do it, the better you'll get. If they offer tutorials, take them and learn the navigating commands. If you have to learn one at a time, do that until you've mastered it then get proficient with another one. Also go at a comfortable pace and keep wits about you. If you're nerved up you'll mishear and mis-see what's on the screen. Slow and steady wins the race. You'll get faster as time goes on.

Just want to add...sm - Anon

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I had been doing MT for over 35 years the first time I did ASR. Like I said above, it took me a while to get used to ASR as opposed to straight transcription. Tonight I averaged 351 lph over 7-1/2 hours.

I just don't understand myself.... - Waiting2Retire

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I've been transcribing since 1992 and ASR for about 12-15 of those years. I've never had to meet a 260 LPH quota before. This is what gets me....I've got the speed typing set up for abbreviations, surgical tools, special spellings, complete sections on physical exams, complete OP notes, etc. Obviously, I'm simply not concentrating and/or sitting in my chair enough. I don't THINK I get up that often, but everything you (and the other person) named to do, I've done. My quality rate is 100% with the exception of maybe 1 or 2 reports a month and they are generally a 99%. Maybe I take too long to "hear" or "research". Gosh...how frustrating this is to think I'm doing really well thruout the evening and then find out I'm not. This entire week I've been around the 200 LPH range. Never above 210. Anyway....again, thanks for all of the advice and help. I really do appreciate it. Wow...351 LPH in 7-1/2 hours. I'm envious. Have a good weekend.

Mine was 349 yesterday and the work was so - slow in coming in plus

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one report was about 20+ minutes long and there were pauses like you would not believe. I have nothing like abbreviations, complete op notes, etc. like you and still find it tremendously easy to get what I do and over. One thing I never do is read and reread nor do I spend excessive time trying to research. In years past I took my line count each hour on the hour but then my count was loads more than it is now just because MTing is not the only income I have. If it were I would get some speed under me and fly. VR is a breeze to achieve way over what is required with lph. If you cannot do the small amount companies require something major is wrong.

Yup...I'm thinking something is wrong too.... - Waiting2Retire

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But tell me....if you don't read and re-read and understand what you're editing, what's your quality rate like? Any ideas of what might be "majorly" wrong? Thanks.

I understand what I am working on, my quality - is what my company demands

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I think your problem is you don't have the speed to do this job whether straight or VR. My speed straight typing alone is well over 2400 lines per day, all straight and with VR if work available I get over 4000. I think a competent transcriptionist should never have to reread anything. I spell check at the end, required and zap right through reports. When you ask about quality just remember most places these days do not accept anything below, I think, about 98%.

I've been lucky - anon

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I've had decent ESL dictators and the speech engine is good, so I have no trouble reaching my quotas.

I'm really pretty lucky too - Waiting2Retire

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as far as good dictators. I get the few bad ones but I have developed templates for them. As far as speech engines go...I think we've taken on some new people that just don't care. I was one of the originals on the account I work on and in the beginning the drafts were wonderful. They seem to be getting worse than better suddenly. Oh I don't know....this is driving me nuts. The only thing I can think of that I am doing wrong is evidently I'm not sitting my chair enough. Do you take breaks at all?

Seriously? 250 lph is a minimum? Straight typing? nm - OMG

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unbelievable

No no....speech recognition. Not straight typing. nm - Waiting2Retire

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nm

Waiting to retire - oldtimer2

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It is not you. I worked several accounts, all gone now, where VR was so horrific, that I was typing them, yet getting paid half. Now, all of a sudden I am on different accounts where the VR is almost perfect. I never lift my foot off the pedal, put the speed at 100%, if doctor does not spell other physicians name, I leave blanks, read ahead and sign off the report. I am angry that I spent the last 2 years on shi* accounts while these gravy accounts exist. This morning in less than 45 minutes I had 285 lines, then no work.

You are stating exactly what I have said for - a longggggggggg time

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There are great platforms out there that enable a person to make really good lines, 300-400 or higher per hour. It can be done. Most who have the worst platforms do not think this lph is doable but it is.

LPH - Disappointed

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I agree with the above poster. I've got a pretty good primary account that I have no trouble with making and exceeding the 250 LPH. But I swear Big Brother watches me and when I'm doing well, they e-mail me and switch me to another account that absolutely STINKS and I take a lot of time verifying crap and my lines go right down the toilet. I have asked for another account but have been told there is nothing.

LPH and speech wreck - anon

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Over the years with different companies, I can get 275-300 straight typing on a decent shift. Today, I can still get more lines doing straight because the VR platform is so horrible. Huge blocks of text all under the wrong headings, the first sentence dicated is somewhere in there somewhere, but where? You sit there, hearing the voice, but can't put it together with the words on the monitor. You can't even find where to begin, for God's sake, so it doesn't really matter if your keystrokes are good because you're sitting there, staring, wasting time trying to figure out where the h*** to even start. So I just start blocking and deleting everything, and end up typing it straight. I try to proof as I go, rather than at the end. However, if I use even 1 sentence of VR, I re-read when done because I just can't trust the speech wreck. I would love to be able to keep my foot on the pedal and use my knowledge to pay my bills, but my VR doesn't learn, either, just the same insane mistakes over and over and over and over and over...and over.

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