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VR? Easier? LOL. - RUKiddingMe

Posted: Jan 19, 2013

Today was my first day of VR. I've been an MT for 25 years. OMG, what an experience! I am mentally drained. Using my hands, foot, ears, eyes, brain and 6 different software programs that have to be manuevered simultaneously while "translating" poor dictation and/or poor VR is the ultimate in multi-tasking. Seriously can we add another task, or another of the five senses to this job for half pay? Working VR is like riding a unicycle up on the high wire while juggling oranges, wearing a hat balancing sticks with twirling plates . . . be quick circus dog, and don't make any mistakes! Dropping an orange or a spinning plate, falling off the wire not achieving 98.5% accuracy is not in the bag of tricks. UGH, and the stress - it's like actively working air traffic control while being on the bomb squad diffusing a bomb and playing Angry birds all at the same time. CRAZY!

When you get used to it - you will be

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struggling to keep from falling asleep from the mind-numbing boredom. *yawn*

Terminally boring AND stressful! - Bilboa

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It gets a little easier -- mostly because the "muscle memory" in your hands learns the new keystrokes -- but it's still harder than transcription. AND deadly boring. (Every MT/"editor" I know agrees.) And "boring" also means you're in constant danger of glazing over and failing to catch one of the gazillion errors the VR makes.

And, yep, all of this fun for half the pay. We must have all been very, very bad in our past lives.

amen, amen and amen! - MT56

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VR/SR - Gerri

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It's crazy that you are paid so little when actually you are doing so much correcting mistakes. I have not done transcription in a couple of years, but I've always known it takes total concentration and you have to love what you are doing. But I'm not sure most transcriptionists love voice recognition.

love hate relationship - radMT

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yea, it's seriously boring, boring because i am making 30% less money. the only good thing i can say is on the client end, the work definitely gets done within turnaround time. unfortunately the dictation VR still has too many corrections to speed up and breeze through.

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