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Easier way to find words - MassMT

Posted: Nov 10, 2011

You know, with all the technology out there you'd think someone would come up with an easier way for us to find words, aside from asking for help from our supervisors or other QC/QA people at our company, or asking for help on a forum like this one. Anybody heard of anything in the works like that? Just curious.

I think it comes down to skills and knowing how - to look stuff up

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Easier way to find words - MassMT

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I was thinking more in the vein of some kind of "universal" program that would allow an outside person (someone who doesn't work for your particular company) to actually listen to live dictation that the MT is listening to, and be able to hear what they're hearing and help them that way, instead of just asking about a "sounds like" and then having to put the word in context, etc. I worked for a company that did that internally, with the QA people taking turns as the "listener of the day" so to speak, but not every company does that, at least not in real time, just after the report is sent to QA. I guess I'm just a dreamer!

gotcha - sm

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There are MT sites that allow you to upload audio files for others to hear and comment upon.

Don't know if this helps... - JS

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or if you already have them, but the Stedman's electronic books let you look up s/l with * as a wild card. For example, if you're working on an ortho report, and the mushmouth says mumble-mumble-plasty, you can look it up as "*plasty," and it will give you every possible suggestion. You don't have to necessarily hear the starting letter or letters, but you can add them if you can hear them to narrow the search. It's not like having an extra set of ears, but they've helped me a lot.

Good luck.

another thing - one look

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one look dictionary (onelook.com) you can use a wild card * also and get spellings of words, so you don't have to have the electronic books.

Real-live Books - Old MT

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I have the whole Stedman's line of word books (paper). I don't upgrade them much anymore now with the Internet, but frankly, they are quite helpful. Everything is cross-referenced. You can get them pretty cheap on Amazon.com. It's what helped me when I first started out, before there was Google.

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