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Question for mainly VR editors/transcriptionists - HangingInThere


Posted: Dec 17, 2014

So for those of us that are looking for jobs who have worked for Nuance doing straight transacription and will most likely need to accept positions with a large amount of VR editing, what is a realistic in terms of hourly VR lines that are edited?  I am assuming that most companies have similar averages of what transcriptionists edit within an hour.

VR - anon

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It's supposed to be about twice what you would type. However, in my experience, it isn't. The VR is supposed to recognize the providers the more you do them, so even though at first there are alot of corrections to be made, that should decrease. The platform I work on doesn't always remember the speakers, so I maybe to 1/3 more lines editing than typing because I have to edit so much.

VR - my experience

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225+ lines per hour is not difficult. I can go much faster until they start zinging me and picking things apart. It also depends on how good their speech is. Nuance has a lot of documents that require so much work and it is sometimes difficult to get 200 especially if it is someone new and the program doesn't recognize most of what is said. If you have a document that requires little to no corrections you could do 300+, but I rarely get that high with Nuance because what I work on requires so much editing and the program does not appear to be learning anymore. The same errors are being repeated without being picked up. Recruiters will also exaggerate how good their VR is, so take it with a grain of salt how fast you will be able to go.


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