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Help with numbers labs and vitals - Frustrated

Posted: Apr 18, 2013

Can anyone help with any tips on numbers? I work in speech recognition as most of us do now and I am having the hardest time with numbers. The account I am on has high ESL also, but even without that, I can't seem to get values correct 100% of the time to save my life. Examples are hearing a 0 instead of an 8 such as 130 instead of 138 or hearing a 2 instead do a 3 or even in platelets thinking I am hearing a value of 300,000 versus 200,000. If it is a profile that doesn't make sense I catch that and question it, but some of these that I think sound clear are wrong. I am not sure if it is the speech recognition coming in with the value that makes me think I hear it the way too? Does anyone have any tips or tricks they use or any ideas how I can fix this short of a new set of ears?

Which system do you work on - The only really good thing to do is go slower

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If you go pretty fast through most of the report without problem and it's just with the lab values that you have issues, slow down just for that and see if that helps.

Also, what system are you on? EScription and Dictaphone both have a setting where they skip past blank space. It's not perfect, though, and so sometimes it skips real words. If your system has something like that, undo it so you hear everything and see if that makes a difference.

Dictaphone - Slower has been tried too :(

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Researching headphones online now to see if that might help?!?

same problem - anon

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I know what you mean because I have the same problem at times, 15 and 50 can be so confusing. Even slowing it down I can hear 15 or 50 multiple times. I love the dictators who enuciate so clearly you can tell. It is very frustrating. I often want to ask my husband to listen to the audio and see what he hears (but of course I wouldn't do that). And of course those who audit will catch it right away. I'm not sure if higher quality earphones would help, but it could be something to consider.

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