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Terrible audio - just recently


Posted: Aug 18, 2013

I have been having exceptionally bad audio lately from normally good dictators and wonder why. Could this be another cost cutting measure somehow, or maybe they okayed docs to dictate under water or in their car or wherever on old crappy cell phones or something?

It's bad enough to have to face the daily FIESA attack, but to take double the time to get through a report because of horrific audio is just the icing on the cake. Anybody else find this? Frustrating when you are trying to speed up without mistakes to have to deal with greater than usual audio problems.

same here - new but old

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I thought it was just me. The audio has been horrible on so many of my dictators. It is hard enough to try and make all their standards but now it is even worse

It is like watching TV through "snow"...n/m - Timmy

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Yes - Allison

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Yes, I am getting a lot of static in the background and good dictators are fading in and out. I had one dictator who I had to put in 40 blanks because the audio was so bad, and I have never had to do that with her before. Also, the new edition of Editscript I am on is terrible. The one I started out with when I started was better!


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