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Is there anyone out there that really averages 2000 lines per day on SR? - SM

Posted: May 16, 2012

I ask because I took a job paying 4.5 to 5 cpl for SR using Dictaphone Enterprise Express Editor. I was told that the minimum productivity for SR was 2000 lines per day and for typed lines was 1000 lines per day. Of course, I never get straight transcription. The most I have been able to do in SR on a good day was 1760 lines and that was being chained to my PC for 8 straight hours with only a 30 minute lunch.

I'm thinking that maybe I could do 2000 lines in a day if I didn't have so many corrections per report. I don't think the MTSOs understand that we would all be more productive on SR if and ONLY IF the software did its job and it never does! I'm losing my mind and the only thing I think every single day while working is I'm only making a nickel per line and I just had to retype this entire paragraph!!

I just aced the test for a job where it's straight typing at 9 cpl, had the phone interview and am waiting to get the official offer soon and I will make this solemn promise, I will never go back to SR again! I'm going to school for coding right now, so hopefully if I get this new job, it will last at least as long as it takes me to finish school!

I am so understanding and with you! Good luck on the straight typing - MT2

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You are spot on. Everytime I catch myself typing what SR messed up I say in my mind "why are you doing this. You are giving them 10 cpl for 4 cpl. Stop it!" well, my mind's eye does not pay the rent, and though this barely does, it is better than poverty. I say we need an industry which pays across the board more fairly across the board, MTSOs need to be held accountable to fair pay for a fair day's work. Yes 2K a day is possible if we are given the correct tools and that would be not having to retype all those reports we are supposedly editing. There are many of us out there for each post like yours who agree. Good for you! Just hoping that your straight typing does not get bought out down the road by some company which pays only for SR!

Well... - sm

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I do it on EditScript, but haven't had experience on Dictaphone.

How many hours - a day do you work

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What types of reports are you doing? Acute care? Clinic? ESLs?

More info helps to put it in perspective.

At 4cpl still doesn't amount to much. If you made 6cpl and only worked 8 hours, it might be meaningful, but not to an experienced older MT.

Hours I work - sm

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I work 8 hours a day. As you know, with EditScript accounts, it's mostly acute care, large facilities and tons of ESL. I've been an MT for a long time and the speech doesn't really slow me down. I don't have to spend a lot of time researching things unless it's completely inaudible or they speak fast, then I will look up the past reports. ESLs usually say the same things over and over, so once you get them down it's not so bad. The fast dictators are worse, in my opinion.

I never said the pay was meaningful. The question was is 2000 lines possible. In my case it is, on EditScript. Don't know about other platforms. I average about $980 (more than minimum wage)take home pay per paycheck. Sometimes more, sometimes less and it would be more if I wasn't paying benefits and contributing to 401K. Do I like it, NOPE, but that is the best I can do right now and I do like my job and the freedom of working from home. This works for me. I made triple this amount years ago. Salaries have gone down in a lot of professions and my house is worth half what it was 4 years ago too!

The pay isn't going to increase, so I just keep plugging along and do the best I can.

The crap I get on EditScript is unbelievable. - You must have better dictators.

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Lots of the reports I get have corrections, and sometimes multiple corrections, on nearly every line of the report.

Also, some of the errors don't make any sense whatsoever, like suddenly Capitalizing a word in the middle of a sentence or giving me lists like this:

Benadryl
Amoxicillin
1. Verapamil
mucomyst
3. Phenergan

...

arrrgh!!

Although I like working in EditScript more than the - others, I agree with you about the -(sm)

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random capitalized words and the botched-up lists. I'd also like to know why sometimes even good dictators end up with a VR result that is 99.9% gibberish, and the whole report has to be redone. Gee, how efficient is THAT?

I have by far the worst SR account I have ever seen..sm - crying in my beer

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Average 100 LPH!!! I get 17 minutes of dictation in 1 paragraph. You cannot even imagine what a nightmare it is to wade through. Just trash!!! They threw every Tom, Dick and Harry on speech wreck and just let it rip. OTH, another company, I can average well 200 to 300 if I set my mind to it. Sometimes never touch a thing!

Rarely a problem - making 200 lph

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and usually averaging 275-300. I agree, it varies so much depending on the facility, how much formatting they want, etc. I'm very fortunate to work for a facility that minimizes edits.

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