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Am considering a position with M*Modal. Have a simple question - that everyone can answer.

Posted: Oct 11, 2012

Actually, I guess I have 2 questions. What is the production minimum for editing? What is your average production in lines per hour with editing?

I know the latter question carries a lot of variables, and I will take those into consideration. But I would like to know how you all actually do production wise. Please, no inflations just honest answers concerning your average. A simple 250 or 325 or whatever would suffice. If you can elaborate further or have more than that you wish to share, that would be great, but I really need some basic feedback to help me with this decision. Please take a moment to share if you can.

Thanks

my averages - sm

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I think the minimum production is 150 lines per hour.

I produce, on average, 180-190 per hour, which is about minimum wage.

Averages - for me

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When I am getting really good dictators on speech recognition where I can speed it up a bit I do between 250 to 300 lines per hour.

That can vary throughout the day, as sometimes you might get stuck on a poor dictator where you have to slow it down and in that case it can be just as easy to to type it, but I do manage to break even and still end up with at least 200 lines per hour or more.

The minimum productivity standard for M*Modal is 150 lines per hour regardless if you are doing speech recognition or straight typing.

I should also add, sitting still and staying focused with - limited breaks helps.

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nm

totally depends on your account - no name

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Mine was one of the bad ones. I could only ever do the minimum 150 lph (which was less than I could straight type), which is why I quit.

Thanks for the input so far. These numbers won't - work for me.

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Guess this kind of makes my decision a no brainer. Will wait and see if there are any other comments, but based on this I'm much better off staying where I'm at for now.

Used to get about 120 lph on VR with the most - sm

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horrible dictators I've ever had in my life. Got moved to a new team with new account and make about 200 lph now.

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