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Editing reports (sm) - kristyjj

Posted: Sep 14, 2012

It seems to me since the red box has been taken away that the speech recognition engine has gotten worse...meaning that while I am editing, some words are just totally left blank on the screen. Then there are some words and phrases that are not even close to what the speaker is saying. I know speech rec was not that good anyway but it just seems to me that it has gotten worse in the past several weeks. Anyone else notice this?

yes - it has

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Not b/c we are now just "noticing" it b/c the red box is off, it literally has gotten worse. When I mentioned this to my TL, she had nothing to say, but it is b/c we were over editing w/ the red box. I beg to differ.

it's a cheap shot - always blaming the MT

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my 4 cents

of course - we are always to blame

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The MT is the poo on the shoe and the QA, QC, doctors, everybody else is golden. We are the dumbest people there are out there and should just be happy to be paid a crappy 4 cents a line and have a job. Ugh what a crock of ....

Editing reports (sm) - kristyjusj

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I agree, anything to take money out of our pockets.

When the SR engine says Tennessee tremens - when the doctor dictated delerium tremens

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and countless other such nonsensical transcriptions by the SR engine that I encounter every day, I don't know how they can keep a straight face or sleep at night trying to blame that on overediting by the MTs! Noone "taught" the SR engine that nonsense by overediting!

Agree - there

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I could write a book on all the nonsense that the VR puts in when the speakers are actually speaking clearly. I wonder...they promote this program so much and state how accurate it is, I for one am changing a lot of nonsense multiple times on a each report. What would they truly do without us. If they think for a minute that eventually they can just dictate into the VR and not need an MT to correct the errors...think again. If that would ever happen, I would be worried what would show up in a patient's medical record.

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