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Looking at my stats and doing some calculations, - sm

Posted: Apr 30, 2014

and, in my case, ASR saves about 25% to 30% of time versus straight transcription, so the fact that I personally am only making 50% of my regular line rate on ASR is the reason my paychecks have gotten so pitiful. The bottom line is MM has to know ASR is not helping us do the reports twice as fast, so they are purposely not paying us fairly for ASR. What I would like to know is are they giving the clients a 50% discount on ASR reports?

ASR - I love it

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I'm sure they aren't getting 50%.

I do have to say though, I love ASR. I am definitely twice as fast on it. I can manage about 150 lph straight typing but consistently pull in 300 with ASR. I HATE getting typing jobs.

love ASR? kind of, but... - alphamt

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You must have great dictators and ASR that remains the same with consistent wording and editors. With difficult dictators that undo ASR gains, finding all the mistakes and correcting them quickly and accurately, on top of researching products and physician names and locations in unknown parts of the country...well I have to say ASR is slower, and I know this because i can transcribe most of these difficult dictations faster even with all the issues because there are no extra corrections to make. Not all of us experience consistently fast days, and i usually round out to a 150-175/hr average. Would rather transcribe, except for the normal sections, for which we can no longer use standards to pull in. I like the emphasis on accuracy, but the corrections and weights of errors are 50% ridiculous and overexagerrated. It really is no longer a profession, but a job where thinking can get one in trouble and working fast with flying fingers is now bumpy, jerky, awkward and very slow. The additional stress of remembering every account's and physician exceptions is on top of everything else a time waster. Without compensation, other than perhaps the Tech office changing the line rate of production based on some variables I cannot determine (do you all feel some days are great and others awful - without explanation), definitely am making much less than 5 years ago. I would say production-wise my production has decreased from 250/hr to 150-175/hr, and pay from take home $1500 bimonthly to $700-$750 bimonthly. Not a professional compensation. We are being controlled by distant variables in production rate and no accurate compensation for difficulty of work. The production end of our profession is no longer transparent, and we are encouraged to find every teentsy fault we can with ourselves and with QAing. Glad you are happy. Not all of us are, probably not more than 25%.

ASR - still love it

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I by no means have "great dictators". Some of them are awesome and you barely have to make a correction. Other ones every other word is wrong it seems. I read and process much, much faster than I can type. ASR, even when full of corrections, ends up being much faster for me.

For me it's a lot faster to have to correct 2 words a sentence rather than having to type the 10 words in that sentence.

Everyone is always trashing on ASR, I just wanted to point out that not everyone hates it and some of us actually prefer it.

There are those who really like asr and pretty fast - with it ..sm

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It is definitely a different concept mentally and requires a different thought process that is not at all like straight typing. You have to master the shortcuts to the point where they become second nature and re-train your brain so that your listening to catch mistakes and not listening to type.

I never did master the skill of editing, straight transcription was always my preference, but there are some who transitioned well and still average fairly reasonable wages.

I still would argue it's not twice as fast for most people - who are taking a 50% cut on it. NM

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It's not twice as fast unless you're on the low end of straight typing... - anon

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Most experienced MTs average about 250 on straight typing, which is why we're complaining about VR doubling our count. If you transcribe 100-150 lph straight, then doubling VR is more understandable.

enjoy ASR and transcription - s

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What I like about ASR is it doesn't hurt my wrists as much as typing did. But I get excited when I get a straight typing job! Still all the pressure with multiple CPs and rules and remember this and remember that, I think, is harder with ASR. I just feel like my mind is being pulled 20 million directions on top of doing the job itself (I mean making sense of it).

overlooked in this thread is that ASR is not liked by most of the work force - alphamt

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now with the expectation of nearly complete accuracy with ridiculous mistakes picking away at a good experienced MT/ME's value....it is next to impossible to do well in ASR. If you are, it is just a matter of time when the boom hits you and your sailing days are over. With the Tier 3 work, the difficult dictators require much more time than straight MT rate, and yet are on ME rate. Even slowing down, i cannot find every idiotic "mistake" of grammar or "not verbatim" teentsy reword from my coworkers to up their QA submission rate by downgrading mine. It is no longer enjoyable or fulfilling to work for this company. Perhaps other Speech Rec companies are not so anal-retentive perfectionistic to the point of requiring VERBATIM with every report - except, when QA says otherwise! There is no value in verbatim. The software is ready to take over, folks, cause it gets away with this nonsensical transcription of some ESLs and other difficults!

Overlooked also is that the management of the ASR production by this company NEVER COMPENSATES for i - alphamt

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It's continual demotion in pay in order to promote their bankruptcy and financial posturing to become the low-budget choice for most on-shore hospitals. This is psych-ops in business, a trade-off of cutting down worker confidence and compensation (reducing the workforce by continued testing and changes of testing rules which lower remuneration and morale) and promoting corporate success.

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