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Correcting VR question. - sm
Posted: Jan 08, 2013
Does anybody happen to know if there's a best way to correct VR to hopefully have it actually "learn"? For example, is it better to completely delete and reinsert the "respiratory" part in an error like "respiratory clear breath sounds" by using my expansion for the capped RESPIRATORY: heading, or would it supposedly learn better if I used case change and added the colon? In other words, are corrections to existing text better or deletions/insertions instead?
I don't see that this stuff hardly ever actually learns, but every now and again, a change occurs (for better or worse), though those really seem to be coming from the programmer end of things, I think. But if there's anything at all that I can do to actually help it "learn" better, it seems it might be a useful investment for my future in terms of editing less, hopefully.
It is - better
[ In Reply To ..]to not do it. Sorry, can't help you out. No matter what you do, the stuff is just plain stupid and has no business in this field.
OMGosh, there should be a "like" button here! - MsMagoo
[ In Reply To ..]LOL. I'm not working in VR right now (and never again I hope) but you are so right, it is downright stupid and absolutely has no place in our career except to make our employers more money. I used it for about 7 years, never came close to what I make with straight typing, and it never, ever learned -- and by the way, it was the transcriptionists' fault because we all do things differently so it couldn't "learn" with everyone not correcting exactly the same way. I'm calling BS on that one. Also, what it did "learn" (meaning someone in tech support went in and corrected specific errors if you sent them an email) got wiped out every time they did an update. But anyway, thumbs up to your post!
What I've seen with VR is that - Des
[ In Reply To ..]it'll learn to change "respiratory" to "RESPIRATORY:" eventually, but then it'll start inserting "RESPIRATORY:" where "respiratory" should be.
If I understand it right, when the report is uploaded after editing, VR scans the edited words/phrases against the dictation, and when it detects the same change to the same dictation multiple times, it "learns."
I was told that VR works best if we edit the incorrect term/phrase in sync with dictation, so when VR scans the report, it can compare the written word with the spoken word.
VR aligns its transcribed words/phrases exactly with the spoken words/phrases, and when we edit these words/phrases, we're supposed to preserve this alignment.
So I guess the bottom line is that it doesn't matter HOW we change it, but definitely matters WHEN we change it.
Interesting. Thanks! - OP (nm)
[ In Reply To ..]nm
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