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To Skilled Editor and VR Trainer - MT from NH
Posted: Sep 18, 2010
At first I was speeding up the dictation but found that it was impossible to correct while listening to the voice. My trainer encourages us to correct and listen at the same time. However, when speeding up the voice, that become impossible and I have to stop the dictation to make the corrections. So, just out of curiosity, what do you do??...do you speed it up and stop every time you make a correction or do you correct while keeping the dictation going? ...and What is more helpful in bringing up your line count?
Hi, MT from NH. Regarding editing while listening, - Skilled Editor
[ In Reply To ..]hopefully VR Trainer will chime in with what is working for people in general. It's Sunday morning, and I'm taking a "break" from work.
I'd suggest just relaxing with it, smaller steps as you train yourself. We don't settle into our smooth grooves until after it's all become second nature.
For myself, I listen at whatever speed allows me to continue without stopping too much, adjusting speed up and down depending on how fast the dictator's going in the first place, quality of draft, familiarity with the dictator, and where we are in the report. (Even one notch higher is way too fast for some of these guys!) BTW, are you adjusting speed quickly using keyboard controls? If not, enter a couple of short forms in your expander so you can just tap one key to speed up a notch (used three times for up three notches, one to slow down, etc.).
Since I'm not a super-great typist, my favorite way to push up those lines is actually to scan ahead for obvious corrections and make them as I'm listening. There's no need to stop dictation to add a period and cap a letter if it's done well before the dictation gets there. That works better and better, of course, the more familiar the dictator is and how standard the dictation. Like an orthopedic surgeon rattling through his boilerplate PE for a healthy 15-year-old. It also works well, of course, for those drafts with few errors that still have to be listened to all the way through.
My best advice is to learn to use the playback highlighter. - VR Trainer
[ In Reply To ..]For most MTs, using the playback highlighter can present a challenge. It is the BEST way to do VR, though.
If you use the playback highlighter the way it is intended, you won't be using a footpedal for the most part. You can detach the cursor from it to make your correction or change and then reattach it. The voice does continue running in the background but when you engage the playback highlighter again, it comes back to where you are in the report and reattaching your cursor to it ensures you are always with the voice.
It WILL take you some time to learn it. Start with using it on 3-5 reports in a shift where the dictator is good and you can slow the speed down a bit. Once you can edit 3 to 5 reports of your day's work easily with it, do more reports.
This is like riding a bicycle. No matter how much information you learn about riding, you won't learn it unless you practice and practice consistently. Some people will learn faster than others. Some have better balance. It works the same here.
Your biggest challenge will be to keep yourself from getting frustrated and giving up.
If you have been doing MT work for a while, it will probably be more difficult to learn it but once you do, you'll be very glad that you did.
This is an investment into a new skill that uses knowledge from your previous process but in a new technologic form.
VR Trainer
VRTrainer regarding keeping dictation running - Skilled Editor
[ In Reply To ..]I do routinely use macros to jump cursor to dictation and dictation to cursor. But how do you keep the dictation going on its own without using the foot pedal? Thanks.
Using a playback highlighter from the keyboard does this. - VR Trainer
[ In Reply To ..]If you use the footpedal, it will not continue playing the voice or highlighting the text.
VR Trainer
Thanks very much, Trainer. I'll ask work to see if our system has this - Skilled Editor
[ In Reply To ..]function. I would like to try what you're describing.
At this point I'm using a highlight that follows the voice as I use the foot pedal to activate (and functions that bounces voice to cursor and vice versa). Although voice can also be activated from the keyboard, I confess I never even tried that because I figured using my foot was one less function for my busy hands.
Give yourself a good go at it. The reason it works so well is - sm - VR Trainer
[ In Reply To ..]that the voice never stops. You learn to mentally and visually (the words will continue to highlight but should be more pale in color) tune it out while you make your edit. Then you just reroute the voice and cursor back to your position.
I know it doesn't sound like a timesaver just by not using your foot but if you are stopping, correcting, starting repeatedly it is not as efficient as it could be.
Takes some time and effort - probably more effort to correctly learn to use this tool than any other aspect of learning ASR successfully - but it is worth it!
VR Trainer
To SE and VRT - MT from NH
[ In Reply To ..]Hi again to you both! Thank you SOOOOO much for such fantastic advice. Skilled I have already started using more keyboard shortcuts since I started reading your posts, so you are truly an inspiration. I am now going to try VR's suggestion of taking my foot off the foot pedal. I am trying to remember if i can do this in BeyondTXT but I will try tomorrow. Skilled, yes, i have a gaming keyboard and I assigned 2 of my keys to slow down and speed up the voice. What I am doing is when the dictator gets to a point where he's just rattling off his standard PE, I speed it up significantly and slow it down at the lab values just to make sure they are correctly heard. I also have in Instant Text some shortcuts like dl for delete line and dlb for delete line back to beginning. I also have some autohotkeys that I have started using -- for instance WIN+' to surround "however" with commas. I have 5 AHK's and plan on creating more.
What I have to get used to more than anything else is placing my hands on the keyboard "home" keys correctly when I type ....I always miss them by 1 key to the left or 1 row down. Drives me nuts.
Let me end by also saying that as a 30+ year MT, I am so enjoying doing editing. I know there are some MTs that hate it but I have to tell you that to me it is a challenge and that's what I need to keep my mind stimulated. I used to fall asleep at trying to bang out the reports. The pay sucks but I do think that with time and patience I know I can get going with this if I really apply myself and make as much if not more than straight typing.
Have a wonderful Sunday! :D
Great to hear when someone enjoys editing, especially 30 years in! - skldmt :)
[ In Reply To ..]You will make money. I got lucky in that I started editing when it was new, so I've always been working at building more and more speed out ahead, or at least not much behind, a whole series of pay cuts that came as more and more people came on and got good at it.
Gaming keyboards are something else I'm going to have to check out. There's always something more, but those exciting gems that pop up keep me looking. :)
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