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Everytime I bring consistent ASR errors to the attention of those who - should fix it,

Posted: Nov 22, 2012

they blame it on the transcriptionists. I get told that this must be the way the transcriptions are editing the output. Are there really that may bad/horrible transcriptionists in the company??? I don't believe there are that many poor transcriptions..... unless they are using ILP's to train the ASR. Maybe that is the question I should be asking: Is the output so poor because you (the software techs) including ILP editing??

You wold not believe what I got yesterday - sm

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I apparently got a job somebody had to break. It was very long, VERY easy, one of the better dictators I've had. The client profile only had 3 things in it: Physical exam format, review of systems format and date format. Okay, so the shortest client profile I've ever seen!

The transcribed part was so horrible that it took me about 5 whole minutes before I realized this was NOT an ASR report! Somebody actually typed this and it was completely ridiculous. Instead of REASON FOR TRANSFER they typed REASON OF CONSULTATION. Doctor clearly said that heading. It was like that throughout the whole report. Sentences were turned around, words were added, words were missing. This was the first time I've been just appalled at how horrible a report could end up. I was embarrassed! If these are the reports that are getting through, no wonder ASR is crap.

I think they should assign a certain amount of AMERICAN MTs to train the ASR and maybe we'll get a halfway decent product.

And I'm so angry I couldn't even spell "would" - lol

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:o

You would not believe - kittykat

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I have had reports MT's had started and either abandoned it or broke it. It was so terrible, all kinds of blanks, even easy docs. One was especially the best doctor, never blanks with him, and it was so bad I turned it in to my CCM. You would think they would delete the text and I would never know just how stupid they were.

yeah blame the MTs - an easy target

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everyone knows ASR is such a perfectly fine tuned program that it couldn't possibly make any errors if the MTs didn't make the same ridiculous mistakes over and over and over.

Problem is too many cooks, too many different styles of doing - things, too many accents, too SM

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many MTs and too many qc people. This will never work the way they want it to.

You are absolutely right ! - NM

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ASR - corgi

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I noticed since we were upgraded to 7.1 that words clearly dictated are not being picked up by ASR, especially at end of sentences and other times it is like it is anticipating what the dictator might be saying and put that in. And they say we can edit quicker than transcribing a report......

ASR - Myk

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I have the same problem with words not being picked up at end of sentences. I do believe some job, I could transcribe quicker than editing. As I am still having problems with ASR, is there anyone out there than can help me with one-on-one training?

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