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Voice Recognition vs Transcribing, unjust hiring practices - TiredofLies

Posted: Mar 21, 2011

Over the past four months I have been hired by companies ***** after passing all the necessary tests and background checks as a medical transcriptionist. Each and every time I was offered $ 0.9/line, told I would have very little voice recognition if any which, would pay anywhere from $0.3 to 0.5/line. Once I get onboard and through training, I find out 90% is voice recognition!!

I am applying for medical transcriptionist jobs - not Editor, QA, or Speech. I have been in the business for over 40 years and honestly it is an insult to be payed to correct a garbled report dictated by a physician where I could have transcribed the report in less time it takes to correct the garbled report. Why the lies??? If you want someone just to edit for 3 cents a line, be truthful.

Worse yet are the medical transcription schools cranking out ads saying you can make $60,000 a year as a transcriptionist. Yeah, right!

ISR is here to stay. Call yourself what you want... - SpeechRecMT

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...a transcriptionist if that makes you feel better. But nearly all MTs are also editors. Sooner rather than later, there will be very little straight transcription.

You state that you were told that you would be editing from 3 cents to 5 cents a line. Sounds straight forward. You then say, "If you want someone just to edit for 3 cents a line, be truthful." I don't get it, it sounds as if the companies WERE being truthful about the line rate.

If you felt you were mislead by the amount of speech rec on your accounts, that's one thing. But even for accounts that have little speech rec, as the accounts are acclimated to the speech engine the percentage of speech rec jobs will continue to climb and a "little speech rec" account could quickly turn into a "nearly all speech rec account." It's the nature of how the technology works.

You've been transcribing for 40 years? Sounds as if the industry has changed too much for your comfort level?

Did your contract state your account would have only 10% speech rec and 90% straight transcription? I personally do not know of any speech rec accounts that start off with such a low percentage. Most accounts would have been "trained" in the weeks leading up to the account going live on speech rec.

I wish you luck.

Snotty answer. She has a legitimate complaint: - Bait-and-switch.

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I call myself a professional medical transcriptionist - TiredofLies

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I have worked over the last 20 years as Senior Transcriptionist/QA and paid $.10/line.

The point I am making is that I was hired as a medical transcriptionist and told there was only going to be 10% speech rec. That I can handle. I realize times are changing and thank God I only have one more year until I retire.

The advertisement for Medical Transcriptionist though is a lie. I would not have answered an ad that said Speech Recognition Transcriptionist. I did not spend my college years and 40 years of working for acute care hospitals to edit for $.03/line. The companies do not need my level of experience to edit. You get paid for what you do. Three to four cents a line is what speech recognition editor is paid - but not a professional medical transcriptionist/medical linguistic specialist.

As an example, one cannot hire someone to be an account manager at $1500/month and then expect someone to do 90% of the job as a clerk to be paid $8.00/hr. Someone would have to be pretty stupid to fall for that.

Bottom line, the jobs should say Speech Recognition Editor for 3-5 cents a line period!

Tired of Lies, you are absolutely right! - LK

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Here's how I look at it, as a former recruiter/HR person for a high tech company. You do not EVER misrepresent a job. It is a waste of everyone's time, the applicant, the company, the recruiter. That's nothing but a sign of a poorly run, desperate company that is either so mixed up they don't know WHAT job they have open or desperate because they can't find anybody to do the job. They burned you by putting you in a job you didn't apply for and never wanted. Unfortunately, all you can do is move on and hope that next time you are not so unfortunate.

I do okay with VR but totally agree that misleading one - about job content is WRONG. Sorry, TOLs. NM

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I'll take that job...I would love to make 30 to 50 cents a line.(NM) - MT 44

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Yes, I'd love to be "payed" that too. - nm

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I believe - sm

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most of us knew what she meant. Always snippy remarks when people have concerns.

Something is fishy about your complaint.... - see message

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What does your contract say? You should have in writing, your pay for straight transcription, ISR editing, and the percentage of work you can expect to be voice rec when you begin.

I find it hard to believe that a company would tell you that you'd be doing 10% VR and then turn around and give you 90% VR. If they did, and it you got it in writing, then you have a legit complaint.

I also find it hard to believe that multiple companies pulled a bait and switch on you one after the other. Sounds to me like you don't want to edit, which is your choice.

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