Stumbled across an interesting article - Snow Bunny

Posted: Jul 12, 2012

It was from a 2011 article on SR ... the comments are being made by Lynn Kosegi from M*Modal:

Someone else who has been very eloquently making the same case for a while is Lynn Kosegi of M*Modal. Lynn presented at AHDI Florida twice last year, at our technology workshop and at our annual meeting, and she explained that paying speech rec editors at 50% the line rate effectively punishes the best producers and those producers will ultimately be lost to the profession, replaced by transcription dilettantes who work without commitment to turnaround time or quality. (You get what you pay for, after all.)

If an MT can transcribe 300 lines per hour doing traditional transcription on a keyboard, he or she will not increase production that much by doing speech rec, as the best you can ever get to is 1:1 transcription. In other words, you can only transcribe or edit as fast as the words are spoken. But still, that MT will be doing the work of 3 full-time equivalents (that is, 3 normal MTs). (This is on slide 45 of Lynn's presentation.) 

She had some impressive metrics in her slides that really told the tale. Download her slides here at her blog: 
http://mmodal2.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/transcription-in-health-information-understanding-the-value/