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Is anyone really making a decent living doing speech at 4 cpl? - Serious Question

Posted: Jun 09, 2011

I am looking into to taking a second job to make extra money. My main job pays by the hour as I work directly for a hospital and it is a combination of speech and straight transcription work. Consequently, I'm thinking maybe taking a strictly speech job would be easier on my neck, shoulders, arms, and hands, but I don't want to be wasting my time. If I'm not going to make any money doing it, why bother?

So I would like to know if there are any MTs out there who do strictly speech at the "going rate" of 4 cpl and are making decent money. How many lines per day are you pulling in order to make decent money?

With my main job, I find that the speech jobs are not that much faster for me. We use Dictaphone and it just sucks. I'd much rather type the reports. But if there is a speech platform that is actually productive, I'd like to know about it and apply for those companies that use that platform.

Thanks!

I make 0.45 per line and my biweekly paycheck is - sm

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500 to 600 bucks. Yes, I am taking home an average of $1100 a month. This is supposed to support myself and my child?! Ha! My paycheck is small because of VR, running out of work and the overhiring of my company.

I'm with you! - sm

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I'm making about the same as you. This is a drop in my pay by about 25%. I can't support myself and my kids on this kind of single-mom income. I'm off to DSS today to apply for food benefits. Looking for other companies that may still have straight typing, but that's going to be hard to find. Not sure, perhaps bartending is the way to go! ;)

Im at 600 biweekly for 4 cpl - sad, sad, sad, sad

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When I was typing, 1400 biweekly!

Ok, I'm crying again.

Speech - Lil

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I've been doing speech on Dictaphone for over 7 years. Love, love, love it. I get paid hourly. At leas 80% of my work is speech. Almost feel put upon if I have to actually type a report. I think we all have to get used to it, I don't think speech is going anywhere soon.

decent money with voice recognition - nina

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My pay is $600 every 2 weeks with voice recognition, and this is part-time - 25 hours a week. I work on the eScription platform.

Unfortunately, speech is here to stay - MR

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I agree with others that speech is here to stay but 4 cents is so low. I recently took another job as my old company, where I had been a long time, recently closed when their biggest account went to EHR. They were paying 6 cents and 7 cents on weekends for VR. When I was offered jobs afterward, even if the straight typing rate was okay (8.5+), if the VR was 4 cents or less, I couldn't take it. It's just not enough, and I know all the straight typing will eventually go to VR. Still not great, but I ended up taking a job with VR for 5 cents + incentives, even though for now I'm doing straight at 7.5 + incentives.

BTW, on the Dictaphone/ExText platform with VR at my last job, I was averaging 3000 lines in 8 hours.

Escription... - hmmmmm

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I've worked on both Escription and ExTEXT, and it seems like the Escription winds up with better drafts of the documents - very little to edit. Of course maybe the account I'm on has been in VR longer so the computer has had more time to "learn."

But...at 3 cpl, it's not really cutting it, either.

I totally agree, too much work to be done for such little pay - nm

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Is it possible to make a living on VR? - Donna

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I've been working on VR accounts for nearly 4 years, for a national transcription company. And they don't pay for the space bar, either. If I work a 14-hour day, I MIGHT make $70. I've been an MT for 15 years and this feels like punishment. I've worked 2 jobs since typing VR accounts because there'e simply no way to make a decent living on VR. I've seen MTs with far less experience get straight typing only accounts, despite a "no nepotism" rule. My pay comes out to less than mimimum wage. Is that even legal? I've applied for work at other large companies and they don't seem to offer anything better. So I'd REALLY like to know if anyone is making a DECENT living on VR only at 4 CPL and NOT working more than 40 hours per week?

I'd like to know also... - jj

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I worked straight typing the last 12 years. This VR stuff is new to me. I was offered a job with 25% ESL, 80% VR at 4 cpl, 20% typing at 8 cpl. Not that I expect PT to be clearing $800 every 2 weeks, but is there any way to get close? Also, when a company tells you 80% VR is there really ANY straight typing or does it usually go elsewhere?

I'm doing okay - Snow Bunny

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I receive 5 cpl for speech and average 400 to 500 lph on the Extext system. And I'm not speeding up the dictation, either. Things are just well "transcribed" by the system. It's the key reason we have to transcribe verbatim. The documents the MTs proof were processed against the original voice file, which ultimately improves the quality of the dictation. It's the same as with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

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