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After 30 years finally decided to embrace VR - need input
Posted: Feb 11, 2014
This is a part-time 4 hour position, been at it for a month, and cannot get above 600 lines. I am editing on the Ex-Editor platform and I love it. Care to share any pointers, or things I can do to be more productive. I am definitely not using the mouse but still cannot get above 600 lines in 4 hours. I do have a full-time straight transcription position, and thought I would gradually ease into VR to build speed for what I will probably inevitably be doing.
It's a joke - Old and Tired MT
[ In Reply To ..]I don't know how the companies sold everybody a bill of goods that you can do twice as much as straight typing. It's a joke, but yet they expect you to.
That's the truth! I interviewed for Acusis sm - justme
[ In Reply To ..]and was asked how many lines I could do. I told them 200 to 230 lph straight trascription and 180 VR. She asked, you do less for VR? I said yes because I can type them faster. I think I surprised her on that one! It is a joke for sure!
I remember when Acusis went to VR, and yes, they - had promised us we would be - sm
[ In Reply To ..]doing at least twice what we'd done with straight transcription. What a friggin joke that turned out to be. My LPH were about the same as yours, and that was on a good day. I think now the minimum for VR is up somewhere around 250 LPH, or so. VR for that company is a waste of time and money, because it's not one-on-one. Instead, multiple doctors share each transcription station, and multiple MTs share the accounts, and the so-called "learning" process of the VR is all tied together. As soon as it "learns" something from one MT, it UN-learns it as soon as the next MT logs into that account. I could pen the dictation in flowery Gothic script with a crowquill pen and India ink, a whole lot faster than it can be done with their lame VR system.
VR will never "learn" - Karmalicious
[ In Reply To ..]The VR doesn't learn because it is preprogrammed based on algorithms that the speech wreck companies have developed. MTSOs blatantly lie to us when they tell us we train this BS. All we do is provide a prototype which Nuance and M Modal utilize to guess at what may possibly be dictated and place it in their speech engines. They do this without adherence to the multitude of account specifics out there and just basically abuse the MTs who are presented with this junk. We all spend more time formatting and making continuous corrections and deletions of material that we would have never transcribed in the first place, and we would format as we went along. The MTSOs embraced this technology to get rid of higher-producing MTs. This was despite the fact that M Modal itself warning them that this was a bad idea and now they are trying to deal with the costs of constantly upgrading the systems. The costs are substantial so they do not pursue Nuance or M Modal to make changes to drafts--they just keep lying to us about training the system with consistency. Thus, they will consistently see good people leave this field and others never enter it.
maybe a suggestion - StillAnMT
[ In Reply To ..]I've not done VR, just straight typing. But my thinking is to make macros to do things like "delete to end of this sentence," "insert line," "delete line," "capitalize the first word of this sentence and then put my cursor back where it was," or whatever you run into a lot in the middle of a report.. Hope that gets you thinking. Again, I am just wondering what doing VR would be like, so I might be way off base here...
You are...VR sucks! - anon
[ In Reply To ..]No disrespect at all, but if you've never done VR then you have no idea how bad it is. Your post is great in theory, but it wouldn't work. I have so many shortcuts but every time there's a software "upgrade" none of them work and I have to re-enter them but yet I can't use the same shortcut initials because it already exists. What? Alot of VR is also ctrl, alt, shift, function keys, depending on the software. Even on a good day I can't get over 150 LPH. I absolutely HATE VR, SR, whatever it's called. I'm 10 times faster straight typing, but why do all that work for half pay? I'm so done with MT. But if you could make your suggestions work then maybe you could hopefully make really good $$$ at VR. Good luck!
With ExText (sm) - Rose
[ In Reply To ..]ExText already assigned all the home keys to commands so you only have awkward keys to assign to macros. It's a shame they did that because their commands are rarely used, i.e. change work type, etc. We had to use Word 2003 which is limited in the keyboard commands that can be reassigned. I used IT to create macros such as the one to format numbering, which takes going through 4 or 5 windows to tell it to number and shortened that one to home keys hit twice, i.e. "jj". Also has one delete word to left. I did IT short forms for names of facilities because VR could never figure out which words to capitalize and it was faster just to delete the redo the whole name.
Basically editing programs are NOT designed for editors because the developers are not getting any money from us, only from the doctors and facilities, so they only need to please them with their software design. I used to use 4000 short forms for transcribing, but rarely did I use them in editing. Not only have we taken a huge drop in pay, but we have also lost another 25% in productivity by not being able to use expansion programs as we did before and that productivity gain was our only raise in decades.
okay - so I was way off base - StillAnMT
[ In Reply To ..]Thanks for the informative and kind reply. So working with VR means one is in the EHR screen itself and so is dependent on that program for whatever shortcut steps are available.. yes, you are so right that the only raise I have gotten is what I have created myself by macros and the Shorthand program used to the nth degree...
It would be nice if VR could do that, but it can't. - In the case of the place I worked, - Msg
[ In Reply To ..]macros made the VR work even worse, because it had lots of invisible commands in there that you can't see, even if you hit the ¶ key. Also, depending on who you work for, some companies don't pay for macros. Mind didn't, so I found it was better to just type everything I was editing, rather than try to use my macros. Such a shame, too - because I originally had a huge library of macros that made me super fast when I was straight typing. Using VR was like trying to do the work with my feet.
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