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How many lph could one achieve performing "echo transcription"? - Noam

Posted: Nov 22, 2011

hello,

i am grateful to have obtained an IC position with a reputable MTSO which wants me to do "echo transcription" for them (part or all of the time). i would be using Dragon most likely. a long time ago on mtdaily.com i read about an MT achieving 250 lph doing echo transcription, but i thought i read here on mtstars.com (or elsewhere) that it's possible to achieve 400 lph--or more--once you "get in the groove"?

could we start a conversation about this? any and all input would be appreciated. seems to me like echo transcription could be relatively lucrative!

THANKS

FourGalore.

hello,

i am grateful to have obtained an IC position with an MTSO which wants me to do "echo transcription" for them (part or all of the time). i would be using Dragon most likely. a long time ago on mtdaily.com i read about an MT achieving 250 lph doing echo transcription, but i thought i read here on mtstars.com (or elsewhere) that it's possible to achieve 400 lph--or more--once you "get in the groove"?
could we start a conversation about this? any and all input would be appreciated. seems to me like echo transcription could be relatively lucrative!

THANKS

At the risk of seeming completely ignorant ... - AncientMT

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... what the heck is "echo transcription"?

I did a quick google search - and I think the op

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is talking about where he/she will redictate the dictation and use a VR program trained to his/her voice and then edit it rather than simply transcribe it from the original dictation.

Personally, I think this would take far more time than simply transcribing it.

If you are talking about echocardiograms, then I would - SM

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imagine you could produce a lot of lines with normals. The description of the echo is almost always identical and the only varying information would be any abnormalities seen and differing artery pressures and EF, etc.

You could create normals and a macro to jump to certain fields of the report to fill in values. Yeah, you definitely could produce a lot.

This is NOT about echoes. - Reader

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The OP is referring to a specific modality of transcribing method, not a specific type of report.

If it were lucrative, don't you think everyone would be doing it? - dm

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Everyone I know who does it does it because they have a problem keyboarding. They all agree that once you get good at it, you can just about equal the lines you can do with a keyboard--unless you were a top producer with a keyboard, in which case, you will lose some income, but you will still have a job.

We just to just call this "redictating" and it hasn't worked well - However

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Redictation has never worked especially well for most people; however, any job in a poor economy is worth considering. Redictation has more potential for errors as it goes through the various phases: dictation, redictation, transcribing/editing.

Try it and see how it goes. Do your best to prove that it can work well, but don't stop watching out for something better, just in case.

I've tried the dragon and when it would work properly, it was great - but, sm

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I never could get it trained to work the same every time I dictated. I spent a lot of time making sure the incorrect words were not in my reports. It made me very nervous being afraid something would go out that wasn't supposed to be there. I finally gave up on it when I got up one morning and acted like it had never heard my voice before and had a very hard time typing what I was saying. Good luck though. I think the best I did was 200 or so lines in an hour on the dragon. I average 300-350 typing, 400 if I have some great dictators who say the same stuff all the time that I have in my shortcut keys.

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