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See inside for comments on this very odd situation for transcribing - MT


Posted: Jun 09, 2011

Did anyone ever hear of a place where you do ASR or VR and having to cut and paste because they want specific macros.  Never did this before.  Any comments.  They pay very low for this work to begin with, very low.

this happened when I worked at acusis - s/m

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Most of the doctors were on SR, but there were a few doctors that had templates and they would state "Please use form XYS", which is what the SR engine would write. That meant we had to add in that template by hand. Not too big a deal if there were no adjustments to the template as it could be put into an expander, but many times there would be additions and subtractions to said template. All paid for at the SR line rate, of course.

These templates are all the headings. That is what makes it rough. nm - MT

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nm

and they don't pay for template lines, either. - Cheap, cheap, cheap!

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