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Forgotten periods! - CuriousMT

Posted: Apr 22, 2014

Anyone else having issues with the speech engine just randomly forgetting periods. As in, it knows the sentence has ended, has capitalized the next word or put in a paragraph carriage return, but there is no punctuation to be found.

It used to be there'd be a missing one every now and again at the end of a paragraph, but this morning it's every other sentence.

Happy Earth Day!

I hate sounding paranoid - Sm

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But it's too,regular to be random. I swear the program is doing it on purpose!

I agree about the randomness. - sm

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Also, it is putting in sections and words that are just not dictated. A first for me today was an entire section was put in that was not dictated. I relistened and reloaded the job thinking I missed something. In the end, it was never dictated. The end of dictation correlated with the time stamp, but yet there was an entire section put in that was not dictated whatsoever.

Random - NTS MLS

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I have noticed it, total paragraphs missing or added in randomly. Mostly at the end of the quarter. I always do good until the last week, then suddenly I am slammed with suspicious reports and TONS of corrections.

How could the ISR possibly do this??? - AnnieOakley

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For example, an ISR report today, pre-editing, said, "The doctor relaid the information to the patient." How can relaid show up instead of relayed? I have had so many words showing up incorrectly that are not even words.Where do they come from? Is the ISR not trained from the finished reports? So how does it learn these words that do not exist?

Relaid is a word. It does exist. - see message

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reÂ·laid

rÄ�Ë�lÄ�d,Ë�rÄ�-/

1. past and past participle of relay.

it it relayed - not relaid

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"I relayed the message to him," or "the tile was messed up so they relaid it." Basic English.

I am not refuting that the correct form should be relayed. - see message

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The poster AnnieOakley said, "So how does it learn these words that do not exist?"

I was simply saying that relaid DOES exist.

only in the sense of "to lay again" - NOT relay a message

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I think what we are thinking - though

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Is that the ASR should be a lot better than it is, and certainly should be getting BETTER, not WORSE.

I still see the same errors for a couple of years now on a very good dictator - for some reason the ASR always starts a sentence in the last para with not a capital, it's maddening.

So do these repeated errors need to have someone monitoring and inputting the corrections into the speech engine or what? If so, they obviously do not.

I have worked with other speech recognition and it was much quicker to pick up errors and correct them. Methinks again that it is just not a priority for Nuance to improve their speech engine because they don't really care if it takes us longer to clean up the reports.

Also, it would mean the speech engine would be more accurate if they updated it, and obviously that is also not a priority. They would rather keep us down in salary and have lots of ammo for FIESA, increased accuracy from the ASR not a priority for them.

I believe you are right. The errors feed their - selfish appetites for greed.

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It is really a sad shame that this profession has been raped by corporate greed and selfishness.

Dragon - MT2tired

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In my opinion, from the experience I have had with this platform, it is like any other, promises the moon but offers below average. Just an excuse to lower our wages and offer an incentive because we supposedly would make more money that way with the wonderful new platform. Add to that, whoever is entering the information into the system for it to be available, i.e. generic versus name brand spelling, spelling of other things that are all wrong causing us to have to constantly stop and verify, and and and and...the list is very, very long. Documentation is very important.

Dragon - Tired

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Not to mention they increase LPH requirements to said bonuses, realizing that many seasoned MTs have reached their maximum LPH and one can only do so much, they can preach all they want that an MT can get more, (and give a hundred reasons why it is the MT's fault when they don't), but in reality, IMO with all the road blocks they create, very few will get it, which is the plan

Dragon road blocks - for sure

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Yeah, and sooo many road blocks. IMHO, the biggest ones - getting the same nasty dictators..With the hundreds of dictators on an account, to see every single day that many and every single day always get the same dictators is ridiculous for them to try to say it just happens. I watch them disappear and the nasty ones line up back to back every day and I report it, but nothing is ever done. Add to that the horrible sound files, bad draft qualities, small fonts, ridiculous long AI with exceptions all the time, bounce from one account to the other because of poor management, etc. Can't obtain goals that they demand if they don't provide the quality tools to do so!!!

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