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typing bliss - crazytyper
Posted: Nov 06, 2009
This has to be a fluke, but for the 1st hour of my shift today... nothing but straight typing.
I was so excited job after job, my fingers were flying, life was back to normal, ASR nonexistant for a brief moment in time!
I typed 314 lines in my first hour of work.
WHY OH WHY, MEDQUIST, CAN'T YOU FIGURE OUT THAT I AM SO MUCH MORE PRODUCTIVE WITHOUT ASR?
If I make money, you make money! It really is that simple.
It is wonderful, isn't it - Just Sayin
[ In Reply To ..]I have had that happen on a rare occasion, and I enjoy every minute of it. Just like the old days. Then reality sets in as an ASR pops back up. But it sure makes for a good day!
straight : VR - VR
[ In Reply To ..]Sorry for asking, but this would interest me:
Out of these 314 lines how many did you really type, how many were put in by the expanders and how many by macros?
The focus doing VR is on knowledge, fast scanning and reading, not on fast typing, and very little use of expanders.
Just asking, but maybe this is the reason why you do not like doing VR?
Focus on VR - Not at MQ - oops
[ In Reply To ..]The focus points you mention would make sense if ASR was as good as MQ says it is. Knowledge, fast scanning and reading go fast, changing every 2 words, sometimes sentences at a time, etc, takes a lot longer than just straight typing. And this is on docs I edit day after day after day, and correct appropriately so ASR can "learn" the dictator. Just never seems to improve.
This is the reason so many of us don't like ASR. Your VR may work the way it is supposed to. Had a few ASR jobs this week that work the way they are supposed to and it was heaven. But that was the exception, not the rule, unfortunately. That is the reason for a lot of the unrest at MQ. We are told things that are simply not true.
ASR has a long way to go to be the tool we are told it is. And we are owed at least that. How many have sent questions in about why certain drugs, phrases, etc, are never corrected on ASR and have never gotten an answer.
Straight vs VR, 314 lines - oops
[ In Reply To ..]Don't quite know how to make the comparison, but 314 lines of ASR, you could probably straight type about 500 lines w/ or w/out expanders in the same amount of time. At least MQ ASR.
Fast scanning does you no good. You could hurt yourself trying to fast scan an ASR document. Too many errors to trip over. Wonder if I could get worker's comp for hurting myself on the job.
Simple Mathematics - Oldie
[ In Reply To ..]Simple mathematics. They can charge the client as if you are straight typing, then turn around and pay you the ASR rate.
By the way, anyone who thinks our expansion file makes us worth less money is ill-informed. (Almost sounded like a corporate note by someone who has never transcribed in their life.) We spend a lot of time making our expansion file and making sure we don't have the smallest of typos when we're typing a document.
Case in point, one letter off is crucial. Take LCTS as in left carpal tunnel syndrome versus LTCS, as in low transverse cesarean secion. Guess what? It's only one little teeny typo that makes a huge critical error, and we are responsible for that little teeny typo not to happen, or at least to catch it as we're going along at warp speed.
SO, don't buy into that we use an expansion file and are worth less. It takes tremendous talent and time to build an efficient file and to use it correctly.
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