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Speech wreck programmers - anyone know


Posted: May 09, 2012

Does anyone know anything about this job?  Are they real people?  Or is is a software program correcting the SR software program?  What do they get paid?  How does it all work?  How does the software program work?  It is watching the corrections we make on a dictator and make changes?  It is working from some kind of medical dictionary of possible pronounciations (I made that up!)?  Anyone up for the challenge of explaining it to me?  Thanks in advance.

i tried looking it up on wikipedia one day - way over my head

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but yes, there are programmers. I used to think the software "learned" when the reports we did went back through it, but now I think it doesn't learn anything till the programmers get around to making the changes. I imagine it pays really well, but I don't think MT experience would be helpful.

speech wreck - OHMT

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Since all the speech wreck programs I have ever worked on never got any better, I would have to say that MT experience would be VERY helpful in a person who programs these things!

SR works off of a dictionary of words and selects them from - the voice it hears, sm

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that is way it is recommended for the user to train the system to recognize their voice. The corrections a transcriptionist makes does not help if it is not put back through the VR so it can hear the correction over and over again. That means it has to hear the word(s) and hopefully when corrected it will recognize the word the next time it hears it. No idea on the occupation of actually putting words into the dictionary that VR has to choose from. VR = voice recognition. It types what it hears not what you are typing. Repetition of voice and correction are required for it to learn.

I would think some sort of computer programming degree for - something like this, nm

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what? - me

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I have no idea what you are asking.


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