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Speech recognition and voice recognition considered the same? - anon

Posted: Sep 22, 2010

Speech recognition and voice recognition considered the same?

Voice Recognition - mm

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Yes, it is the same thing.

Where can I get training for editing? - anon

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Seems that's all that's out there now and i've never done it and nobody wants to train on it. Is there somewhere that offers schooling/training online, besides career step? I don't want to pay that much as I am already an experienced MT. Thanks in advance for any info

On Your Job - MT

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If you take a job that has ASR, they will likely train you on it. It's not complicated, just annoyingly annoying.

On the job. - Not any special training.

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You listen and edit.

It's terribly boring and if the company you work for has a bad ASR system, it can make your life he**.

Actually, my company, Webmedx, is becoming - even more proactive than before.

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I agree that MTs should be able to just start editing without special training, certainly no need to rush back to school for classes; however, it turns out many, presumably already typing too fast for the dictation to keep up with, had not been using a lot of the navigation and other standard keystrokes that now become a lot more important.

So previously my company offered some basic transcription and editing classes one could sign up for, but lately they've stepped up efforts even more to help people increase their line counts, especially in editing. Even though much of the effort has been focused on encouraging people to those basic keystroke combos they should have brought to their work long ago, there is now more that is useful for people with greater proficiency.

Most particularly, computer analyses of our keystrokes are posted for all of us anonymously that show which keystroke functions we're using well and which not, and there are a slew of analyses showing how we compare on each to an optimal use as well as to others doing this work. Like on average how long a person takes to edit one minute of dictation or our "rewind" average. All this info is extremely useful, both technically and in a more social sense because we get to see how others like us across the country are doing, and also because it highlights areas where we would benefit from taking the classes being offered to help develop those proficiencies.

For a long time now, also, this company has provided all employees with a good expander program and instructions on how to use it, as well as worked to accommodate whatever expanders come with new employees, and there's an e-mail group dedicated to sharing expander tips.

Probably other companies are also seeing some need help people who've allowed their skills to stagnate. I haven't personally, though, heard of any providing working expander dictionaries of short forms for their accounts and perhaps providing paid classes (right!) in their use. Developing our expander proficiency is still our own on-the-job job.

Voice Recognition - mm

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It just requires you to listen instead of typing. It is really not that annoying if the company you work for has a good speech recognition platform.

VR - MT

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It's not that annoying if the company you work for either has all good dictators or at least only will let good dictators use it.

The platform cannot "think" no matter how good it is. If a dictator constantly backs up over himself, the platform does not know that. If a dictator constantly says "go back up to the dicharge list..." there is nothing the platform can do.

So, the people who say they have a good platform may only have good dictators....

And not boring for those who listen to what the words mean, - Poppy

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which is critical to doing a good job anyway.

Tedious - MT

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Can't say boring. Annoying and tedious for sure. Listen, lift foot off pedal, fix something little, listen for 1/2 second, lift foot off pedal, fix something else little, on and on and on. Can't stand it.

Sorry. I'm in and out of many more reports each day - Poppy

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and like that, both in hearing all the patient stories and in knowing I'm getting a lot more done. I like that. I don't like verbatim, too little use of my range of abilities, product way too sloppy, I agree, but no coincidence that I have no verbatim accounts.

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