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companies who do not do voice recognition? - gintex

Posted: Feb 02, 2012

Can anyone tell me some companies who do not do voice rec? I hate it!! Thanks.

VR - MT2

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It's where it's all going so you'd be better off staying where you are and learning to make it work for you, then hopping in and out of companies which are doing straight typing for a limited period of time.

Unfortunately, "VR" means "transcribing for half-price". - Briana

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It would be very pleasant if your advice were universally applicable. Make VR work for you. How many people are there who wish they could - and who have made a concerted effort to do just that!

...turn up the voice speed...

...use keyboard shortcuts...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell me another story, Mommy!

The fact is, there is still an enormous amount of VR work that essentially amounts to retranscribing significant portions of a document. I had a report last night consisting of 25 lines. It required 30 edits, some of them quite significant (including reformating the Medications section).

And there wasn't anything particularly unusual about this document; I frequently have reports requiring edits in nearly every line.

What's worse, the errors the SR software makes are incomprehensible. Why, for instance, are we going along in a numbered list just fine, we get through five items, and suddenly it switches to a paragraph form beginning with the word "Six amoxicillin...."

rather than...

6. Amoxicillin....

Or, all of the "Dr" references in the document have a period after them (which BOS doesn't like), except for one that doesn't.

Or, punctuation that doesn't even follow the most ordinary rules of grammar that the software should "know" about.

VR editing often amounts to little more than transcribing (or, what's worse than transcribing, fixing some really bad transcription) for half-price. It's the most obnoxious thing that's ever happened to the MT and it's a blasted crime that companies are getting away with it.

The reason they get away with it is simple, and it can be summed up in the one phrase "Shame on us". Sure, "shame on them" too, but conniving to cut labor costs has to be expected from corporate America these days, right? The real shame is that we've all just rolled over and let it happen.

choices - MT2

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It really comes down to choices. I won't accept a VR position for less than 5 cpl. I'm lucky that where I work, I make between 0.07 and 0.08 cpl for VR. I don't like VR, but I've made sure I have shortcuts, and processes that make it work for me.

Hopefully, those of you who find yourselves working for 3 cpl line will realize you're better off unemployed than with that kind of stress.

I had an odd thought, and I think it could be true - MT4

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Would they stoop so low as to put a doc on VR who is terrible,so that we have to type for 4 c a line and redo the whole thing? In other words they know it is gibberish, and we have to start from scratch. That way they get the 10 c a line expertise for the 4 c a line. I am really sounding paranoid, but I am starting to think it is true!

It is true - Happens to me all day every day

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That is exactly what is happening to me. I have told my manager, tech people, direction of transcription, etc., that this VR is garbage and we need a way to get paid our regular typing rate if we have to retype the whole report, but they do not care and do not do anything about it. I often get a "VR" report that has a few lines of gibberish and end up typing 100 or more lines for that report and get paid half my regular rate to do so. Seems like they are taking advantage, doesn't it?

I do think it is a way to cheat on wages - MT2

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And they do it outright.
If there is a karma, boy, it has been years we have been put down and kept down... I wonder if and when we get payback how it will be...
The outright cheating is just amazing and takes a lot of guts, but they act like it is every day behavior!

I get written up for retyping the whole report - Fedup2

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I would love to be able to retype this gibberish, would obviously be faster, but at MModal, if we delete the text and type over, it alerts our manager and we have to justify it. They don't care that I would be paid less, just don't want to admit that they have docs on VR who have no business being there.

No choice to retype, almost entire report MIA - Happens to me

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In this case the dictator is so horrible or the audio quality is so bad that VR doesn't even attempt to make a report. There will just be a few lines of random words and then nothing. There is nothing to "edit," but we are paid at our editing rate (half pay) no matter how much I complain about it.

There are some reports that are just easier to retype than edit and for those I use my expander to put my own normals in. If they don't like it, they should pay me more money for taking twice as long than just using my normal. Maybe there is a work around for M-Modal so they don't know that you are using your own expansion or something. M-Modal wasn't quite so bad with the VR when I used that as our current VR engine is. I don't know if there could possibly be anything worse than what we have now.

straight typing - nn

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might want to try EMTS (Electronic Medical Transcripion Services) --they recently advertised for help.

Like watching paint dry... - NOTAnEditor

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Editing VR drafts is THE most mindnumbing, dumbed-down, boring, garbage ever... It's like watching paint dry!

not to mention - still typing

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the fastest road to the poorhouse I have ever encountered.

Probity. I think all their accounts are straight typing. - no message

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wordZXpressed - nm

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