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HOW MANY ASR LINES CAN YOU EDIT PER HOUR? - movingfingers

Posted: Jan 28, 2012

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but how many lines on average would you say you can edit with ASR per hour? I think the most I have ever been able to do was around 250 myself. I just wondered how I measured up with other MTs with the ASR jobs. I remember a couple of years ago not long after MQ started up with ASR getting a company email describing an MT (no name was given) who could edit over 600 lines per hour and over 400 with straight transcription. I thought this was hard to believe but maybe I'm wrong.

The most I have ever edited - on a good day

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when the moon and stars are lined up just right is 430.
Mostly, I average 250-270 on the mush mouth, static-laden phone using, drunken ESL, shrieking nurses in the background, dictators on my BOB

The most I have ever edited - on a good day - movingfingers

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"Mostly, I average 250-270 on the mush mouth, static-laden phone using, drunken ESL, shrieking nurses in the background, dictators on my BOB"

I feel your pain on all of the above!!! LOL. Thanks for the reply! :)

I only have "good" days when editing - dnr

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reports from outside my usual assigned hospitals. Because of the too numerous to count times I have to stop to correct and punctuate most of the time, sometimes I just retype the whole paragraph as that is the only way to maintain any sanity. Unfortunately, 200 lines is still only minimum wage. I need at least 300 lines to get back to my regular MT rate which is impossible to do if you do anything beyond formatting, i.e., no correcting and no punctuation. A "good" pay period is when they don't have to give any make-up pay to bring me up to minimum wage.

are you seriously only making minimum wage? - missindale

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My pay is a lot less than it used to be back in the good days, but still much more than minimum wage. If I was only making minimum wage doing this, I would do something else. I don't like it well enough to do it for minimum wage.

I remember that bit of propaganda - SOSDD

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I think my average is about 190 lines/hr. I have the auctioneer traineers in my BOB, have to slow them way down, account for distortion or slow speed, and then type in everyone other word that ASR missed because the dictator mashed them all together. So many of my dictators must have a finite amount of time (about 2 mins/report I think) to dictate a report. Some are really awesome though and can do it in 1.5 mins.

While I like this job and not wishing it to end, but know it will..I would just about give everything I have to be a fly on the wall the first time they have to edit their own dictation. That would be priceless.

not your typical results - need standards

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That is one thing this company, no matter the name, does well, remind us over and over how terrible we are. Someone is making 600 lph, how come you are only at 250? There are a few tricks and stuff to help reduce your keystrokes, but the bottom line is, you can only go as far as the voice goes, right? Do what you can to keep the pedal down, if that means editing ahead and formatting paragraphs or deleting double words, the faster you can get through the current report the faster you can get the next one. Sometimes it feels like a race that never ends.

I know some MTs have been caught just sending through unedited ASR as a way to boost line count, but I would never ever condone that. Surely MM is not touting those MTs as something to aspire to, but then one never knows for sure.

As for the atypical 600/400 results, I was on an account that had multiple doc standards where most of the report was already done and all you had were a few @@ to fill in and the report was over 100 lines. A few of those in a row or during a shift and it was easy to make those line counts, but once again, not typical. However, once MQ caught on they shipped that account overseas AND I know several companies don't pay for standards anymore.

Those kinds of emails are best to ignore and/or delete. Just do your personal best. Keep track of your lines and see if you can do better next shift, next week. Learn some new keyboard shortcuts or work on your expansion list/doctor normals and compete with yourself.

not your typical results - need standards - movingfingers

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Thanks for the reply. Good advice. I think I actually saw someone out here once posting that they had sent unedited work through the system just to get more lines because they were so disgruntled about the ASR pay cut. That's probably the dumbest thing an MT could do. You WILL GET CAUGHT doing that eventually. The clients will complain about the poor quality and not only that you risk getting caught during an audit. It's a lose/lose situation!

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