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Thirty minutes of dictation per week. sm - aquatype

Posted: Nov 02, 2012

I am applying at a company that requires at least 30 minutes of transcription a week. As an estimate, how many hours would you say this is equivalent to? Thanks in advance.

The rule of thumb - is

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3:1 transcription:dictation. So, 30 minutes of dictation would take about a hour and a half. How much more or less it would take would depend on the quality of the dictation and the skill level of the transcriptionist.

Thank you so much for you reply. nm - aquatype

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I thought - cmk

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I always thought the average was 11 minutes an hour, so therefore 30 minutes would be about 2 1/2 hours. Mind you, I think that would be with average letters being about 2 1/2 minutes long, so set-up, etc., would be taken into account. A straight 30 minute letter would be about 1 1/2 hours.

2-3 hours depending on ease of work - sm - INKMT

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30 mins a week is nothing...I average about 80 mins a day. This is obviously a very, very part-time job...averages down to 5 mins a day of transcription or 15 mins a day or so.

To the OP...SM - Old Anon

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Are you sure they didn't mean/say 30 minutes of dictation a day? It wouldn't be worthwhile to hire someone for 30 minutes a week.

I agree that it is according to the - msmt

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quality of dictation and the type of work. I can do some doctors that are 30 minutes of dictation in 3 hours, while one doctor I have done for over 10 years 30 minutes of dictation takes one hour. It is also according to how fast they dictate.

Estimate - Nancy

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I worked on an *average* of 4 to 1 when I ran a micropublishing company 25 years ago. Some dictations will be much faster and some much slower, but the average held reasonably well for most of the transcriptionists I had working for me. Caveat: not in MT.

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