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New to VR - need some tricks of the trade! - busygirltoo

Posted: Apr 04, 2011

Been working with VR since last October. After rebuilding shorthand file and adding words to autocorrect for the last 5 months, I feel those items are no longer a insignificant factor hampering my production. Sadly, I'm finding I'm not as productive as I need to be in order to make a living.

Anyone have any VR tricks to increase production? I'm headed to the poor house if I don't get this figured out soon!

Truly appreciate any help you can offer!!!

vr - peep

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Try to use what's already there. For example, if VR has "neuroforaminal" and you want "neural foraminal", make your shorthand file "neuroforaminalx = neural foraminal". That way, when you come across, neuroforaminal, just stick an 'x' at the end and viola, you'll get neural foraminal.

How do you do this??? - Ang

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In my word expander, if I just type an "x" at the end of a word in ASR, it only sees that I typed "x." It does not see the previous letters in front of it (hope I am explaining myself well). How do you get this to work with your expander? In otherwords, if I actually typed the word "neuroforaminalx" it would expand it to neural foraminal, but since I am actually only typing "x" it will not work.

It's just how my word expander works - peep

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After typing the 'x', I do have to hit "enter".

vr - busygirltoo

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Thanks, Peep. I think you're giving me some tips for word expander. I have a pretty good grip on that. (I just had to start over when I started this job in October as my old expander was not compatible with their platform. Been a nightmare to reenter 15 years worth of expansions!)

You got any useful tips for increasing productivity with Voice Recognition editing??? I could sure use those!

Thanks, Peep!

Try speeding up the sound - Passin thru

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For the good dictators that you don't have to edit much, try speeding up the sound as much as you can. This increased my production dramatically. Good luck!

New to VR - need some tricks of the trade! - busygirltoo

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Thanks, Passin Thru. I have not tried that! Gonna give that a go and see what happens. Appreciate the tip. :0)

re: busy - already in the poorhouse

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There are a lot of tricks that good MTs are using, like Peep's. I use that trick very often. I also spell check every report before I start it.

Since every client profile is different I also have tricks for that. For example; i have accounts that are only single space between sentences so I do a find and replace and fix all the double spaces that VR inserts at the beginning.

Mostly though, and unfortunately, much of the garbage VR types in simply has to be manually corrected. Read Manic's post above. Your dropping productivity is the norm rather than the exception.

already in the poorhouse - busygirltoo

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This is what I was afraid of. I still do the same amount of lines, even more actually, but not the 2.5 times it would take to earn a similar wage. Very frustrating. Time to hunt down a straight typing job . . . or go to work at McDonald's! That would be an improvement at this point! LOL Thanks of your reply.

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