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It is just me or is there anyone that can make more money typing versus voice recognition? - nm

Posted: May 31, 2012

I did - Not a Luddite

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I was so excited to learn something new. The VR turned out the most ridiculous gibberish...it took me longer to edit what I was promised the "engine would learn" than it would have to just type it out. The *cough* "tech support" was just this side of useless (and wrote in Engrish).

I'd be willing to give it another try, and much more cautiously this time.

I make boatloads more typing than editing. - hate editing

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I seriously cannot stand editing. I hate having to stare at that screen nonstop. I really miss being able to turn my head!!!

You must be joking. - sm

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In my company, the worst dictators are inevitably allowed to use SR. This means that there are corrections - and sometimes multiple corrections - that must be made on nearly every line of the report.

Our platform lets me know exactly what I'm producing, broken down by straight transcription versus SR editing.

On average, I'm getting about 350-375 lph for SR editing, but sometimes it drops into the 200s depending on the dictators I get.

And yes, I'm pushing the voice speed to Alvin-and-the-Chipmonks levels and using every other conceivable keyboard shortcut, etc. However, heavy editing ABSOLUTELY imposes SEVERE limits on how useful these "productivity enhancements" actually are. In other words, no matter who you are or how skilled you are at SRE, you ain't goin' nowhere fast (unless you're taking unpardonable risks with the dictation).

Let's call it 375 lph. For this hour I would get paid 4 cpl or $15.

On the other hand, I can transcribe (straight) 275 lph on average, for which I would be paid 8.5 cpl. That works out to about $23.37.

So what it really comes down to is the "mix" I get of transcription versus SRE. Can you make up on straight transcribing what you lose on SRE?

This is where they've really got you by the short hairs, because I get about 80% SRE and 20% transcription. Sometimes the ratio is skewed even more toward SRE, rarely if ever in the other direction.

So, let's take this typical 80-20 hour. You have to do a little algebra, but it works out to this:

.80(15) + .20(23.37) = $16.67

In other words, the small amount of straight transcription that I get to do barely increases the low rate of earnings that I'd get from SRE.

They got the goldmine, we got the shaft...nm - barbv

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NM

I'm thinking of changing my screen name to - Ben Dover. nm

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if you dont, I will - exactly!

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nm

ROTFL... really ... I needed this! :) No message - me again

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LOLOL

I try and try, but it is not happening. - CarleyJae

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I have tried everything and I just do not see how we can double our money with VR programs. I think it takes double the time to fix the mistakes as if I were to type the report myself. The MTs definitely got the shaft on this one. So sad because I loved my job and now I HATE it!! I do not even want to sit here and watch the box bounce from word to word, making tons of corrections for 1/2 the pay. Sad, but true.

Believe me, they knew it wouldn't happen. - Ben Dover

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So, here's the fact. In one of my corporate capacities, I had the opportunity to sit in on demonstrations of three different SR platforms.

All of the reps came in with "canned" demos which, of course, beautifully rendered the carefully selected spoken word in flawless text, both as to content and format.

We then presented them with what we considered to be a "typical" ESL dictation, and all three of them fell flat on their royal a$$e$.

This failure was then, again in each case, met with what I call the "Grand Promise", i.e. not to worry, because their SR platform could "learn" how to handle these voices.

Two were selected for simultaneous extended testing, and the long and the short of it is that neither platform ever "learned" much of anything.

To this point, I'm sure you're not surprised by anything I've said. But what happened next is where all of us Muggles get whammied by the Wizards of the Executive Suite, and that's what I call "The Final Solution": We'll buy one of these platforms because we simply CANNOT be "behind the times", and we'll handle the problems with editing, for which we'll pay fractional line rates. After all...SOME of the words are right so why should we pay for them?!"

The notion of doubling your productivity with SR was *NEVER* - and I repeat, *NEVER* promised by any of the SR companies, and no one really knows WHERE IT COMES FROM! However, it started somewhere, probably as a figure that was simply pulled out of the thin air by some Operations Manager or CFO, and once it took root it spread like wildfire throughout the industry.

In other words, it became a standard, de facto transcription industry lie.

But we Muggles let it happen, and that might be even more shameful than that the Wizards in the Executive Suite have been able to perpetuate the lie.

Whenever we choose to stand up to the lie, it might go away. Until that time, it will remain firmly entrenched in Transcription Hall of Shame.

In a Fair World... - signalfire

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In a fair world, the dictators would have to 'train' the software by doing ALL THEIR OWN CORRECTIONS until it was deemed 100% trained. Then send it off to some poor person who didn't go to medical school but has to know more than an MD, a Pharmacist, etc. anyways..

That way, they would learn how to use the proper equipment (no GD cell phones!), pronunciate clearly, not speed talk, and all the rest of it.

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