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Been paying close attention to my ASR reports - this morning. There has

Posted: Feb 07, 2012

not been ONE SINGLE LINE so far in any report that has not needed editing in some fashion. Not ONE SINGLE LINE. Usually multiple things in every line including stupid little words it leaves out, stupid things it adds, repetition by the doctor that it cannot discern, blatant errors of the ASR, punctuation, numbering, and on and on and on --- for 60% of my line rate? If there are folks who have great ASR and can just breeze through with a cursory proofread, more power to you. My is ridiculous.

Your not alone...not that makes you feel any better :-) - tired

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I have to stop, on average, 4-5 times a line. - dnr

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Sometimes I just start typing, but then, there is just enough correct to lure me into going back into editing mode. It's like an abusive relationship you keep getting lured back to with promises of things getting better which turn out to be short lived.

When they do the keyboard versus mouse cursor movements reports to "educate" us to use more keyboard shortcuts, they can't seem to get their head wrapped around it that 95% of that cursor movement tally is getting to the errors to correct. If their ASR is as good as they claim it is, there should be very few cursor movements required, ie, just enough to format the report.

Strictly speaking, to keep the ASR in synch with the words, you are supposed to highlight and then overtype, but that takes even more time than deleting and typing, and I can't spend the time figuring out how much I am going to highlight and overtype. I have tried typing, copy and delete the typing, highlighting what has to be replaced and pasting, but that does not keep the ASR in synch. I have noticed that formatting and numbering doesn't keep the ASR in synch with the unchanged words either.

ASR - anon mme

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totally agree... just wish we could get corporate to understand that it takes more than 60% of the time to "edit" these reports. The SR program definitely needs to be better than it is (get better results with Nuance Dragon inexpensive software). Also, agree that SR does nothing that it promised, such as when we continually correct errors that SR made on a particular dictator, and adjust future reports by that same MD to reflect those corrections --- just are not made. The only thing I can think of is to e-mail people such as Vern with our thoughts.

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