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Advice for increasing productivity in VR editing? I have a hard time matching what I made typing. - Hannah

Posted: Mar 08, 2012

Thanks for sharing

just accept the fact that you will not match what - you made typing

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That was the plan in place for VR, to cut pay.

Hannah, there are tips on the VR forum. Keep pushing - and you will see improvement daily. SM

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Whether you only approach double your transcription line count or exceed it will ultimately depend on what kind of work you're given, not just your performance. A lot of companies have it stacked against you these days, not specifically to screw you over but to shave labor costs, for too many a make or break situation.

The one specific tip I'll suggest here is perhaps the most important--refuse to accept advice and ignore comments from people who want you to join them in failure. Misery may love a crowd, but it's a miserable crowd, to be avoided like the plague it is.

Rather a contradiction here, no? - Boggled Mind

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"...not specifically to screw you over but to shave labor costs".

Labor costs = wages & benefits, so I'd love to hear your explanation how it is possible to "shave labor costs" WITHOUT screwing the laborer? Where do you think these savings come from - or, more accurately, WHO do you think these savings come from?

Boggled, if you won't pay enough attention to understand - a single sentence, could that be a problem

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with editing in general? The clue's in the words "not specifically to screw you over but to shave costs"--your boggling ones. We work in the information age and an information field. That means our brains are the tools we use to climb out of any miserable holes we allow ourselves to trip into, and of course to avoid them in the first place. Short form: Think.

not stacked against you? - are you kidding me?

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That is specifically what companies are doing to MTs. Wow. I hear people on this board sharing the truth about their working conditions. Are you even an MT? Where do you work and what do you do?

AYKE, I refer you to my answer to Boggled. You know, people are - hard wired to learn aurally, spatially, 5 other

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ways, only one of which is verbal, i.e, via the written word. I'm sure this field is full of people who came to it for typing and now find themselves without a perhaps critical facility for taking in written information, i.e. aren't specifically talented at reading in a line of work that now requires it.

I started out feeling snarky out of irritation, but I'm now totally serious here. This has to be a basic problem for many. Of course, this would be totally in addition to having the deck stacked against us by our employers.

The big lie about SR: You'll be able to do - twice as many lines.

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Very rarely, I'll see an SR document that doesn't have a lot of fixing to be done, and in such cases you can rock some lines.

Unfortunately, the operative phrase here is "very rarely". I have many reports that require fixes - often multiple fixes and even complete reworks - on nearly every single line and no matter what "tricks" or "techniques" I use, the best I can do is about 1.5 times the number of straight transcribed lines. I can usually transcribe about 250-275 lines per hour, and typically I'll average maybe 350-380 lines average by SR.

Given that SR also constitutes the greatest part of the work, it means that I've been reduced - after more than two decades in this business - to making $14-16 an hour. Every now and then, if I'm lucky, a bit more.

It is, and always was, a bald-faced lie that you're going to be able to process twice as many SR lines as you can do by straight transcription. And I hardly think any of us should be surprised if yet another development in this business has resulted in the MT getting shafted just one more time while the "suits" just keep on making more and more and more.

How they sleep at night, I have NO idea.

The big lie about SR: You'll be able to do - twice as many lines. - newgirl

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I'm going to apply for an internship with a VR company recommended at my school here real soon, and just graduated from EvCC. Right now I do home health care for $8.00. $14.00 an hour sounds excellent!!!

newbie - think about it

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I don't think a newbie will make $14 just starting out. Prepare yourself for the distict possibility that you may actually make less than $8 an hour for quite a while.

Newbie, I'm the "will see improvement daily" person, but I deplore - anyone thinking $14/hr is good for the

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skills and talent required for this work. A major problem we're having is literate adults who ever were willing to work for $8/hr willing to drag rates down by working for a bit more.

I hope you do so well that this sets a whole new standard for what's appropriate for you, well enough to understand that a person who can do this work should be making significantly more than someone doing data entry or calling out "next" and passing out forms at some government counter. Not busting their butts for LESS.

Which VR engine do you use? - I think the shortcuts vary with the program type.

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There is a big long list for M-Modal VR shortcuts on their board, but you gotta scroll to the bottom or maybe click on "Febuary" to find it.

Short cuts vary with your speech recognition software.

They do, but they're just the start. You use them plus - a bunch of others you make for yourself. NM

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