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Petition to Improve conditions and pay within MTSOs (Views: 18474, 2016-09-19)
What is Wrong With Offshoring Transcription? (Views: 26899, 2010-10-06)
Using the Job Wanted Board (Views: 14161, 2010-05-03)
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generic printer issues - Val (Views: 56, 2019-02-22, 11:27 am)
Where are MT positions posted? - Christy (Views: 186, 2019-02-22, 6:59 am)
- Where are MT positions posted - susan (Views: 159, 2019-02-22, 7:55 am)
- some FB pages - sm (Views: 127, 2019-02-22, 8:51 am)
  - Be very cautious about that MTS page. She only - copies from other sites. SM (Views: 117, 2019-02-22, 9:35 am)
    - of course, it's always good to double check - sm (Views: 78, 2019-02-22, 10:19 am)
    - Facebook postings - anon (Views: 86, 2019-02-22, 10:59 am)
- You could try Indeed once in a while but - in the know (Views: 66, 2019-02-22, 12:25 pm)
  - Looking for MT jobs - It seems (Views: 77, 2019-02-22, 12:38 pm)
    - Craigslist and local postings are an option. I found - SM (Views: 72, 2019-02-22, 1:10 pm)
- Just asking works best. - gw (Views: 20, 2019-02-22, 9:56 pm)
NTS - Carol (Views: 226, 2019-02-21, 9:08 am)
VDI: Before I invest in a new computer, - sm (Views: 208, 2019-02-20, 7:42 pm)
- Probably not your computer - Anon (Views: 124, 2019-02-21, 7:06 am)
  - Are you able to work in VDI with the audio issues? - sm (Views: 52, 2019-02-21, 6:34 pm)
    - What happens when you are unable to work in VDI? - gw (Views: 41, 2019-02-21, 9:42 pm)
      - Have to keep working in the old system until they find a fix. - sm (Views: 43, 2019-02-22, 5:07 am)
- Common issue - sm (Views: 135, 2019-02-21, 7:37 am)
VR editing - Zee (Views: 340, 2019-02-19, 2:45 pm)
- don't change that stuff - sm (Views: 256, 2019-02-19, 2:57 pm)
  - Agree with all the above. The more hands-off you can be with VR, - the better for you and the speech engine. (Views: 140, 2019-02-20, 5:06 am)
    - All 6 of my Nuance-related accounts want even that - left alone if dictated (Views: 151, 2019-02-20, 8:31 am)
      - VR editing - Zee (Views: 81, 2019-02-20, 6:12 pm)
        editing does not mess with speech recognition. It is speech recognition - sm (Views: 81, 2019-02-21, 7:00 am)
        I believe VR is set up after the pause of a sentence to add - punctuation, sm (Views: 49, 2019-02-21, 11:04 am)
        for training, the file is put back through - and compared (Views: 51, 2019-02-21, 12:50 pm)
        the transcriptionist is not the cause of bad VR - but believe what you want, nm (Views: 37, 2019-02-21, 3:22 pm)
        Editing - sm (Views: 55, 2019-02-21, 12:53 pm)
        Transcriptionists mess up the VR - I am serious (Views: 67, 2019-02-21, 2:42 pm)
        Probably doesn’t help when - sm (Views: 46, 2019-02-21, 3:11 pm)
        It wouldn't matter if you typed it 100 times the same way - same way, sm (Views: 54, 2019-02-21, 3:29 pm)
        Yeah, my Dragon voice recognition does the same thing, I'm the only one on it - nm (Views: 39, 2019-02-21, 3:25 pm)
        It's a computer program, not a person, it types what it thinks it hears - at the time it hears it, nm (Views: 38, 2019-02-21, 3:30 pm)
    - VR editing - Zee (Views: 72, 2019-02-20, 6:06 pm)
- It will get better - sm (Views: 185, 2019-02-19, 3:34 pm)
  - VR editing - Zee (Views: 179, 2019-02-19, 3:48 pm)
    - VR editing sucks. I could type the whole report a lot faster than fixing all the crap. NM - NM (Views: 129, 2019-02-19, 6:09 pm)
      - VR editing - MT66 (Views: 106, 2019-02-20, 10:17 am)
- I would think you would follow s/m/ - Anon (Views: 145, 2019-02-20, 7:31 am)
- VR Editing - sm (Views: 147, 2019-02-20, 7:48 am)
- You're over editing. Quit doing that... - editor21 (Views: 126, 2019-02-20, 12:56 pm)
  - Definitely overediting - sm (Views: 110, 2019-02-20, 1:56 pm)
  - That is too funny, the voice recognition does not know your keystrokes. Once you receive - the file, VR is not on. sm (Views: 82, 2019-02-21, 7:06 am)
    - That is exactly what happens in training VR - sm (Views: 50, 2019-02-21, 12:47 pm)
3 hospital accounts, 5 clinic accounts and no work - ugh (Views: 276, 2019-02-19, 10:45 am)
- you must work for a Nuance subcontractor? - sm (Views: 167, 2019-02-19, 11:51 am)
  - Yes, Nuance company - ugh (Views: 151, 2019-02-19, 12:45 pm)
    - I have a question. If Nuance wants out of the MT biz - and they funneled all this work to MTSOs (Views: 137, 2019-02-19, 8:45 pm)
      - Same company for me too - sm (Views: 90, 2019-02-20, 9:21 am)
        I feel for you. TTCI used to be the cream of the crop - Not now with Nuance into every aspect (Views: 79, 2019-02-20, 10:41 am)
        I love the company actually but - ugh (Views: 76, 2019-02-20, 11:38 am)
      - Don't trust Nuance at all - sm (Views: 67, 2019-02-20, 9:31 am)
        The Nuance board says they're just now doing VDI - what (Views: 82, 2019-02-20, 9:35 am)
- ~~No work~~ - Old and Tired (Views: 113, 2019-02-19, 12:26 pm)
  - back to no work here and this time it will do - me in (Views: 175, 2019-02-19, 1:26 pm)
IC status - kelbel (Views: 238, 2019-02-18, 6:25 pm)
- IC Status - Means (Views: 167, 2019-02-18, 7:03 pm)
  - IC Status - It also means (Views: 148, 2019-02-18, 8:37 pm)
    - Bottom line. You pay the - Employer part of social security (Views: 133, 2019-02-18, 9:08 pm)
      - You only pay on your profit - you can write off expenses - NM (Views: 113, 2019-02-19, 7:36 am)
      - Yes, just like you (35%): Fed, State, and Self-Employmt. - (Medicare and Soc. Sec.). nm (Views: 100, 2019-02-19, 10:10 am)
- ~~IC status~~ - Pepperpotts (Views: 41, 2019-02-19, 12:30 pm)
Refurbished computer and Intel i5 processor - okay for VDI? - OldMT (Views: 218, 2019-02-18, 11:11 am)
- p.s. - OldMT (Views: 159, 2019-02-18, 11:31 am)
- If you need a job that badly - Look for something else (Views: 160, 2019-02-18, 11:36 am)
- If it meets VDI specs, then double check with a - tech person at the company. SM (Views: 119, 2019-02-18, 11:48 am)
- I had bad luck with a refurbished computer. - sm (Views: 128, 2019-02-18, 12:12 pm)
- I have heard older computers - in the know (Views: 128, 2019-02-18, 1:06 pm)
  - Getting another computer - to support VDI (Views: 115, 2019-02-18, 2:43 pm)
  - Have you heard how new - sm (Views: 88, 2019-02-19, 7:32 am)
    - The computer requirements sheet says a 3rd generation - sm (Views: 24, 2019-02-22, 5:12 am)
- I'm also wondering what the difference is with SSD? - sm (Views: 73, 2019-02-19, 7:42 am)
  - My SSD is at least somewhat faster than a regular hard drive. - But mainly, I feel safer with it. (Views: 46, 2019-02-20, 5:14 am)
- My used computer works fine for VDI - tlc (Views: 21, 2019-02-22, 2:22 pm)
  - So you don't have any audio lag? - nm (Views: 4, 2019-02-22, 10:45 pm)
WARNING about MT interview - MyOpinion (Views: 564, 2019-02-17, 11:13 am)
- I never have liked or trusted those kind of questions. - Why come here now, after they SM (Views: 233, 2019-02-17, 1:15 pm)
  - Perhaps, they finally got the assignment and then came here, probably - that simple, nm (Views: 96, 2019-02-18, 8:42 am)
    - how funny to answer a question and get a dislike, what's not to like - it was a perhaps, sm (Views: 81, 2019-02-18, 12:35 pm)
What do I do, can't do files, can't understand - MT30 (Views: 307, 2019-02-16, 1:29 pm)
- Follow the account instructions or ask more questions - former LT (Views: 183, 2019-02-16, 2:53 pm)
VDI users with the audio problems: - sm (Views: 225, 2019-02-16, 9:35 am)
- I'm right there with you - Thoroughly disgusted (Views: 143, 2019-02-16, 9:52 am)
- Same here. Are you experiencing footpedal lag and having - sm (Views: 100, 2019-02-16, 1:07 pm)
  - Extreme footpedal lag and glitchy crackly audio, not - sm (Views: 95, 2019-02-16, 4:13 pm)
    - It seems like they are driving more and more MTs - out of the big MTSOs to smaller (Views: 115, 2019-02-16, 5:43 pm)
      - Not just Nuance work but anybody working for the MTSOs that - MT (Views: 98, 2019-02-17, 6:55 am)
Question about legal transcription pay rate - anon (Views: 245, 2019-02-15, 2:49 pm)
- found this info, - sm (Views: 146, 2019-02-15, 7:49 pm)
  - don't know how the keystroke of a space would affect it? Probably significantly - so the $ per hour would change, nm (Views: 98, 2019-02-15, 7:53 pm)
- Pay by keystroke - Really? (Views: 109, 2019-02-16, 8:49 am)
  - I was thinking that this is a very odd way of calculating - pay. Call me suspicious but (Views: 111, 2019-02-16, 9:23 am)
    - I agree - anon (Views: 93, 2019-02-16, 10:36 am)
- Could the client help translate this for you, i.e. - SM (Views: 93, 2019-02-16, 12:43 pm)
Wow, latest job posting already threatens termination - sm (Views: 635, 2019-02-12, 1:34 pm)
- I answered a posting of hers before and she is - pretty rude and abrupt SM (Views: 384, 2019-02-12, 1:53 pm)
  - Exactly! Red flag right there for sure. - sm (Views: 279, 2019-02-12, 2:42 pm)
- specific needs, maybe? - Ann (Views: 266, 2019-02-12, 2:52 pm)
  - Nope, already have a job - sm (Views: 223, 2019-02-12, 3:25 pm)
- So what? At least you know up front exactly - what is expected. (Views: 211, 2019-02-12, 3:31 pm)
- Wait, what? One person to cover a 15-hour shift?? - Why not two people, for 7.5 hours each? (Views: 209, 2019-02-13, 3:27 am)
  - I thought the same thing. It should be an hourly position - sm (Views: 149, 2019-02-13, 9:39 am)
- She obviously saw what was posted about her big job - and took her post down LOL sm (Views: 162, 2019-02-13, 7:43 pm)
I sure wish people would stop repeat posting of - jobs from another page SM (Views: 283, 2019-02-11, 2:02 pm)
- I agree! I can get all those posts myself. - Likely she will get put in FB jail (Views: 142, 2019-02-11, 2:10 pm)
- Why not tell her on the page - Instead of telling us here (Views: 143, 2019-02-11, 3:29 pm)
  - Those boards have their own little cliques. The owner can be quite - snippy and has pets. I have seen that already. nm (Views: 107, 2019-02-11, 3:40 pm)
  - not looking to embarrass her - sm (Views: 144, 2019-02-11, 4:04 pm)
    - annnnd, obviously she is not a fan of this board - multiple copied ads in a row today nm (Views: 66, 2019-02-13, 10:22 am)
      - I think she is doing it deliberately now, she is on this board - taking job posts off here, SM (Views: 81, 2019-02-13, 11:33 am)
        mod of that board finally asked for an end to it - thank goodness nm (Views: 68, 2019-02-13, 11:57 am)
- why are you posting about facebook here. - this is not the place (Views: 137, 2019-02-11, 8:26 pm)
  - Why cant we? Why are you in control of what is - posted here? NM (Views: 131, 2019-02-11, 8:41 pm)
VDI - anon (Views: 293, 2019-02-11, 9:41 am)
- Sadly, I do not. It seems that TTCI is keeping all - in the dark. Never had so (Views: 192, 2019-02-11, 10:40 am)
  - TTCI Lies - Started with Nuance (Views: 176, 2019-02-11, 11:47 am)
    - Then why nolt just tell us the truth. She has to know this - does not make for a good (Views: 132, 2019-02-11, 3:41 pm)
      - Why not tell the truth - You are kidding right (Views: 109, 2019-02-11, 8:35 pm)
        Guess it was wishful thinking - All MTs know we are lied to regularly, especially (Views: 114, 2019-02-11, 8:44 pm)
Anybody else having the HughesNet speed nightmare? - sm (Views: 210, 2019-02-10, 1:45 pm)
- Hughes Nightmare Here Too - VA MT (Views: 136, 2019-02-11, 9:46 am)
  - They never mentioned that high speed broadband was also - mandatory with VDI which makes (Views: 113, 2019-02-12, 6:56 am)
  - OP followup - sm (Views: 84, 2019-02-12, 8:02 pm)
- Hughes Net - see message (Views: 132, 2019-02-11, 12:34 pm)
Curiosity question? - What is average age of posters? (Views: 261, 2019-02-10, 9:55 am)
- Age - Ss (Views: 217, 2019-02-10, 10:21 am)
- Why? (This is another curiousity question.) - nm (Views: 154, 2019-02-10, 10:45 am)
- Really - I never answer those (Views: 182, 2019-02-10, 11:03 am)
  - It's statistics. Never mind. - Keep your heads in sand (Views: 184, 2019-02-10, 11:39 am)
    - WTH is wrong with you? - You insult those you want info from (Views: 164, 2019-02-10, 11:55 am)
    - Sure. Great way to get statistics. - Maybe only one person (Views: 153, 2019-02-10, 12:56 pm)
    - Guess what? - SM (Views: 158, 2019-02-10, 5:07 pm)
- Where is your personal information - .... (Views: 154, 2019-02-10, 11:52 am)
- Why do you want this? What are you doing with - your statistics? and who are you? SM (Views: 137, 2019-02-10, 12:41 pm)
- You could put this poll on one of the MT FB pages - SM (Views: 152, 2019-02-10, 1:02 pm)
  - Or they brag about their 3 jobs - which pay well all straight typing (Views: 170, 2019-02-10, 3:23 pm)
    - Ohhh, I LOVE that one...see it all the time! - NM (Views: 100, 2019-02-10, 5:19 pm)
    - Want the names? - nn (Views: 147, 2019-02-10, 5:35 pm)
      - Why so willing to provide names now, here on this - board, why not the FB group? sm (Views: 115, 2019-02-10, 7:00 pm)
      - Ignore the attacks. Seems those attacking were - bitten by the Green-Eyed monster (Views: 104, 2019-02-10, 7:13 pm)
        I, for one, have a job and am fine with it. I dont need - to be jealous of anyone. SM (Views: 119, 2019-02-10, 7:51 pm)
        Pollyanna you are the BIGGEST whiner there is! - nn (Views: 105, 2019-02-10, 8:57 pm)
        Sorry honey, wrong poster. Wipe the fog from your crystal ball - and guess again. np (Views: 88, 2019-02-11, 7:35 am)
        The one who has 3 jobs - And all ST (Views: 123, 2019-02-10, 8:57 pm)
        and also, I'm a VR gal so I wouldn't even want her - 3 dumb ST jobs nm (Views: 61, 2019-02-13, 7:51 am)
- My age range...sm - Old Anon (Views: 192, 2019-02-10, 4:49 pm)
- My age range - sm (Views: 176, 2019-02-10, 5:20 pm)
- Judging by a lot of the answers...sm - Old Anon (Views: 165, 2019-02-11, 4:49 am)
  - You pipe right in on it, apparently you want to be - part of the 11-13 crowd. nm (Views: 109, 2019-02-11, 7:37 am)
  - You got that right, sister! - nm (Views: 73, 2019-02-11, 1:03 pm)
- I am 64, not insulted by this question .... - Rita, CHDS (Views: 124, 2019-02-11, 5:55 pm)
  - Me either (ashamed) and me too (amused) - 54 (Views: 91, 2019-02-13, 6:52 am)
    - Yes, I come on in between jobs just to get a good laugh - nm (Views: 46, 2019-02-15, 8:54 am)