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Changing a VR job to straight transcription - Just hit F11?

Posted: Jun 11, 2013

Sorry to bother everyone, but knew I could get an answer here. You have a job that comes to you as VR, can someone tell me exactly what you do to change it to straight transcription? I thought I remembered if being F11 so I did that and it said it was going to delete the text. I said okay and transcribed job. Do I need to do anything other than that? It never showed up in my transcription line count for the day but it is showing up as VR line count and I wondered if I did something wrong. I alerted my TSM, but as usual, no response other than the read receipt. So wondered if I did the process incorrectly. Just wanted to know in case there was a next time -- this was the first time I did this!

THANK YOU AGAIN ALL FOR YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT! it is appreciated.

Yes, it's F11. Interestingly.... - sm

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the same thing happened to me once where I used F11 and the lines showed up as VR. I'm still not sure why that was as I was not given an answer. I'm told by my sup that they are "closely monitoring" the use of F11 and that we really shouldn't be using it at all. I know at one time we were supposed to put in a Remedy ticket to document F11 usage, but I think we recently got an email saying that we no longer needed to do that. I'm not clear on that though.

Hmmmmmm - Plot thickens

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Appreciate the response. This is the first time I have ever used it and the VR didn't even come close to what the dictator was saying and to add insult to injury it was a bunch (as in 20+) small reports rather than 1 big report and the dictator was awful. I was in tears -- so that's why it is so "near and not dear" to my heart! ;o) I want to make sure I do not repeat that mistake EVER!

ASR is always ASR rate unfortunately - JustMe

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My understanding is that once a rpt is keyed in as ASR you will only get paid your ASR rate whether you delete the misheard words one at a time, paragraph at a time, or the whole report with F11. I believe they said they are watching when F11 is used as ASR cannot learn when that is used. I don't believe we have to fill out a Remedy ticket now but I personally would notify my TSM for CYA purposes.

You still get credit - Very old issue

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This has been brought up a few times ever since ASR came to be at this company. What shows in your stats has nothing to do what how you are paid. It will always show as ASR whether you push F11 or not, but it will still count on your pay as straight transcribed if you did F11.

I'm not sure what you mean - JustMe

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I keep track of my stats every day and my paycheck is always within a few dollars of what I've calculated based on my stats so I'm not sure what you mean by saying what shows in your stats has nothing to do with how you're paid. Please explain. Thank you.

Just a question? - not an MM MT

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I don't work for MM, but I do follow the board, as I think it is a precursor for the future of other companies, unfortunately. I think I work for Nuance now, but really am not sure at this point. Anywhooo...why would you just not F11 all of your reports? If they sucked, I would be F11-ing all of them that needed it. I did editing for a short while and hated it and could not make any money.

I think if you do too many F11 reports u get - disciplinary action. NM

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NM

truth of the matter - anon

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truth of the matter; I suppose if someone wanted to, they could delete all the text without using F11 and then transcribe the report themselves. I have thought of that at times. I know there is a key command that does delete a lot of the text; just can't remember it right now, but have accidentally done it a few times and then had to use the key command that brings the text back.

I do that sometimes - depends

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There are times when the ASR is particularly bad, if I have to make more than 1 or 2 changes a line, I will delete a lot of the text and type it because it's faster. It's all about the line count and speed. If it takes me too long to edit it, then I will type it. No F11 for me. I'm here to make money and if it slows me down, boom, it's gone.

I used - to

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F11 all the time when on DocQscribe, but not on that program anymore. Unfortunately the program I'm on has no F11 or similar. If it did, I would be using it.

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