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markers? - Happy

Posted: Dec 02, 2010

I'm fairly new to MQ and learning the skip marker thing. Could someone please tell me, are we suppose to remove the markers that say <non-s>? I've had so many reports that are FILLED with these markers. Or, are they suppose to stay in?

I'd appreciate input/answers. Thank you, Happy.

Don't remove them. You can turn them off so - you do not see them

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though, as they are annoying.

When in an ASR report, go to TOOLS > OPTIONS > SPEECH RECOGNITION > Then uncheck the box that says Non Speech.

You won't see the markers anymore.

Hope that helps :)

Seriously? - CyberlandMT

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Do you think I or anyone else is going to waste our time to do all that? When it is much easier to just delete or type over? Reality is that we are all trying to make a living...without killing a patient...and so far MQ or any other techno guru doesn't have a clue yet how to perfect the system...but loves to cut our pay for doing the same job we've always done. I say to everyone in this business...find a way to make it work to your advantage while maintaining the same high quality standards you've always practiced.

To do all that? - It is a couple of simple

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mouse clicks.

Deleting the markers causes the audio to not be in sync with the text. We aren't supposed to just delete them.

But whatever.

BTW...you only have to do it once. - It takes like two seconds and

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it's set for good. You don't have to do it for every single job, so I'm not sure how you think it messes with your production.

Maybe we know now why ASR is getting - dumber instead of smarter?

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People not editing the ASR correctly (and I have been blaming it all this time!!!)

Guess so. - ASR runs through again

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after editing.

So, if you remove all the markers, the text is out of sync with the audio when it runs through the second time and then...it can't learn!

I'm not sure where the anger came from in that post, but I thought turning off the non-s markers is what we were supposed to do instead of "deleting or typing over them". At least I know I wasn't alone there!

Cheers!

BINGO!!!! - mttoolong

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I find it hysterically funny that the same people (see above) who are all "I ain't gonna do nothin THEY want, I gonna do it my way" are the ones who bitch about ASR "not learning." Guess what?! It is learning (or more accurately, NOT learning) precisely because of this crap.

re: CyberlandMT - Piano Gal

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Wow... Not sure where your anger stems from, but it's just a couple of mouse clicks and makes OUR job much easier on the eyes. Just a one time deal, takes like 15 seconds literally. And, sorry to burst your angry bubble, but many, many of us turn it off! and cursor tracking and those other speech recognition things that drive us crazy! It's really not a big deal, doesn't take a lot of time at all and only has to be done the one time.

You're NOT suppose to DELETE OR TYPE over a non-s marker. You just, like was said, TURN IT OFF so you're not bothered with it anymore.

to the newbie OP: Sorry, this is the standard of responses found on this forum on occasion. I'm glad someone did give you answer, but sorry the fire breathers also decided to chime in.

Welcome to MQ, hope you're happy here! ( I have been for 6 years now)

Sorry for encroaching on the OP's post - CyberlandMT

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and apologize for breathing fire. I was..and that's not good to let this job get to me like that. Yesterday was a horribly bad ASR day. I read the OP's post incorrectly. I do have those things checked under tools so they won't show up in the report, but sometimes the ctl-R marker will. I mistakenly thought that's what the OP was referring to. I still maintain that there is absolutely no reason for one of those kind of markers to show up in the middle of a report just because ASR has decided the dictator is saying something (when they're most likely not) that sounds like redundant text. The proper way to handle that is to simply highlight the text and type over it with the correct terminology. It will not remove the ctl-R from the database, it will just remove it from that document. So I'm not quite sure how you think I have been messing up the system. It's certainly not my fault if the program doesn't learn anything and spits out garbage sometimes.

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