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Let me preface this by saying that I know that ultimately this is what we're here for, to train the systems to understand every dictator. With that being said, has anyone else noticed that some of the dictators who have been purely straight transcription for years (while all of their colleagues are on speech wreck) are now on speech as well?
These are doctors that without several paragraphs stored in your expander program, there is no way you could understand what they are saying. As in, they mumble their way through a ROS or a physical exam, virtually saying the exact same thing every time, but so incomprehensible that even knowing what they are saying, you still can't make out 99% of it.
I've had at least 3 of these doctors get switched over the speech in the last 2 weeks. I'm basically re-typing everything speech brings in (luckily with my stored text in my expander) because there is no way to edit the gibberish that speech thinks the dictator is saying.
Again, I know this is what we are training the system for, but there are some dictators who will never be able to have their dictations figured out by a computer. I hated typing them before because even with paragraph upon paragraph stored in my expander, I spent so much time deciphering the non-standardized stuff that I barely made any money. Now with them being speech wreck files, I'm making half the amount and still doing the same amount of work.
Just needed to vent.