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Editscript VR only 50% accurate - according to sources in the know

Posted: Mar 05, 2010

So you get a report where the text has been typed by a computer. Then you must edit it. My sources (a large regional hospital MT Dept) tells me that the computer generated text is only 50% accurate, a far cry from what the vendors will tell the dupes at the hospitals who are buying into this junk.

You CAN fool some of the people ALL OF THE TIME - Starvin Marvin

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Don't let that be YOU!! VR totally blows and is a total ripoff. I know it. You know it. The MTSOs know it. Only the VR Lovers, it seems, are totally clueless.

true, I agree. There are still people out there who - future of MTing

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are 100% convinced that MTing is their calling and that NOTHING in the world can keep them to be successful!

What advice can one give to these people? Nothing, any advice is blown in the wind.

eScription is better than that on the accounts I work on. - I use it every single day I work. nm

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nm

Another source in the know - MTinTX

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I work 6 eScription accounts (two part-time jobs)and the accounts vary in how accurate the transcripts for editing, but at no time are they anywhere as low as 50%. The SR "engine" in EditScript depends on (1) the quality of the transcription that first fed it and (2) the quality of the edited transcription that keeps feeding it.

If your source is the MT department of a single facility, then I would not accept just their opinion. Are you sure you canvassed every MT in the department?

There are valid opinions from MTs working with EditScript daily, like mine and others, who say 50% accuracy is too low. Valid opinions--regardless of the slams we get on this forum from those that disagree.

She is the lead MT and polled her whole department - before they laid off some 40 of them

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So, yes, she polled the whole department and they agree, about 50% accuracy with editscript.

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