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Time tape/Time ratio - ellierain


Posted: Mar 09, 2010

Does anyone know how the time/tape time ratio works?  If you type 7 words per minute, would your ratio be 7.1?  Or am I totally off course on this?

Not sure what you are saying (sm) - Long time MT

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How many words you type per minute really doesn't translate to what I think you are asking. Generally speaking, the tape/time ratio is 3 to 1, i.e, it takes 3 times longer to transcribe something than to speak it. So 30 dictated minutes should take 1.5 hours to transcribe. Hope this helps.

off course - Ima MT

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The general ratio of dictated voice to transcribed word is 3:1

If you type slower (and statistically you do as average is 10 words per minute), then you would fall into a 4:1 ratio. So 15 minutes of dictation will take you an hour to type.

Ten words a minute? (sm) - Long time MT

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You said the average is 10 words per minute? How can that be?

Oops! - Ima MT

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10 words per line

8-10 LINES per minute


Sorry!!

I presume you want to figure out how much -sm - HLINVA

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you can do in an hour or in so many minutes. Depending on the dictation it can take anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes to transcribe it. So in theory 30 minutes of diction would take you 90 minutes to type up or 3:1 (3 to 1), meaning it takes you 3 minutes to type up 1 minute of transcription. So a 60 minute take would take you 3 hours, possibly more depending on the dictator, quality, difficulty factor, etc.


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