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Speech Recognition Line Counting - Discouraged

Posted: Oct 24, 2013

My job is transitioning to from straight transcription to speech recognition. This is what is being offered:

0.045 per line

A line is defined as 2 edited lines = 1 regular MT typing line of 65 characters

So in summary,

1. My cents per line is going to be cut in half going to SR editing.

2. The edited lines is also being cut in half because it takes 2 edited lines to equal 1 transcribed line.

Does this sound right? Are all companies counting lines this way? If so, this is pretty sad.

what I've seen - Ayn

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The cents per line rate sounds about right.

As for an edited line being different from a transcribed line - this is the first time I've heard that one. Sadly, though, it does not surprise me. They will keep chipping away at our pay as long as and in as many ways as we let them. I for one would not accept that offer. (My hospital is moving to SR soon, and I'm not accepting the cents per line cut either -- I'm actively looking for a new job outside of the medical field entirely!)

Wow, that is lower than 'normal'. - anon

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While, unfortunately 4.5 cpl for SR is average, cutting the line in half is not. To me, if I read that right, you'd be essentially making a little over 2 cpl for VR.

The three companies I've worked for paid 6, 5, and 5, respectively, and all were a 65 character line with spaces.

OP, you're overthinking this...sm - Old Anon

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You might want to check with your employer. Most probably you are being paid 0.045/SR line which is 65 characters (? plus spaces). Ask them what the line length is for SR and whether it includes spaces. I average 300 lph doing SR, so for me that would be $13.50 per hour.

SR Compensation (or lack of it) - Discouraged

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As unbelievable as it seems, it is true. I asked the employer. A regular 65-character traditional straight typing line with spaces is only half a line for SR.

So not only is the pay cut in half, the lines are cut in half as well.

It would be wise for anyone interviewing for an SR position to ask how lines are counted--the traditional way or the new "****" you way.

I asked. Got a hmmf sound as the response. - Been looking for new job but no luck so far. nm

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What a shame - another old anon

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An experienced MT can transcribe 300 lph if a decent dictator!

To Old Anon 300 lph - Disgusted

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Where I work making 300 lph on speech is near to impossible. I am getting documents with 3-4 edits per line including those who say go back here where I said such and such. Chomp, chomp, chomp on chips, shuffle, through drawers, plus making up their own language and expecting a perfect report while at the same time thinking they are so good that they require verbatim. Oh, just once I am tempted to do a verbatim report. Half of these dictators are not good enough for speech and never will be. It is all about making money off our backs.

Editing speech engine errors takes a lot of time too. Good gravy....please be a Q-tip for presbyacusis?

I am happy for anybody who has good enough dictators to get 300 lph on speech, the angles must be smiling on them.

We must work at the same place. I don't know - how much longer I can do this. nm

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VR ruined my life, money-wise - 7thchild

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The pay in switching to VR was brutal. I make about 500 less per check than I used to. Two friends lost their homes after the switch. Yet, the companies pretend we are lucky to have jobs and expect a 99% accuracy for fixing garbage? WHY is it that people who go to school for 12 years get to use a horrid system that probably costs millions of dollars to create and the person who has to fix it and make it "all nice and perfect" gets paid 4 cents a line? Poverty wages!

Payback: Don't pay your medical bills - Rose

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They are sending my office visit bill to collection and the woman said "what do you want me to put down for the reason you can't pay" (as it goes to the doctors first who decided whether or not to send to a collection agency. I said "Just say I'm making as low as $4.00 an hour editing doctors VR reports and can barely cover the electric bill to continue working".

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