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dictation quality - just need to vent


Posted: Jul 17, 2012

Why is it always the massively long jobs that have to have horrible dictation quality or horrible dictation?!? M*Modal's dictation system leaves something to be desired under the best of circumstances, but it always seems the long ones are particularly awful, or maybe that's just my luck! :(

M*Modal/Chartnet - JW

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I have that experience too. I use Chartnet/M Modal and the editing voice files are rough sounding. I have one PA who is very hard to understand and hear too. I have a doctor who keeps changing her mind and stumbling over words. What are we going to do about it? I need a job, so I try to work with the file and do the best I can with it. Yesterday, I had an edit file that was a mess with so many words that did not fit. I would have typed it faster than edit it. I'm with you on this one.


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