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ExpressScribe audio quality - testing


Posted: Jul 29, 2012

I have been having an issue with ExpressScribe. I took a test a couple of weeks ago for a job I should have aced, but halfway into the dictation, it sounded like the dictator was on a cell or in a tunnel. I thought that maybe they were testing to see if I could do this type of work because perhaps the dictator dictates this way. I didn't fair so well. So I took another test yesterday which is in my area of expertise and I didn't get the job because of my quality. The problem is, I got the technical terms, but again halfway in it sounds like it's a cell or in a tunnel, so I am assuming that this is NOT the tests they are sending, but my ExpressScribe. I did update to the latest (free)version and used to work on ExpressScribe every day and never had any problems. Any ideas of what could be causing this?

It's ES and all their software updates they are doing. - RoadRunnerMT

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I had major problems with it as well. However, I had the old version still on my computer but it would automatically upgrade to the newest version so I ended up cleaning out my registry and computer of all evidence of ES, moving the folder I had of the program zipped to my email, and then rebooting. Then it finally installed the old version and I'm back to a much happier camper. Something is really messed up with their crappy "new versions"! They must have sold out to some other company also who took them down the tubes.


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