10 seconds of dictation = 15 lines?
Posted By: EvaEv on 2008-05-18
In Reply to: Someone help me with my math... - ugh
I want to see that. Not even voice recognition is t h a t fast, I mean without errors! Are we in a marathon?
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10 seconds = 1.5 lines closer to reality...nm
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Yes it is! If you use the old 10 minutes of dictation -= 100 lines, sm
that's 15 cents per line. I could live with that. 
1 minute dictation=10 lines of transcription
Every one minute of dictation equals 10 lines of transcription so a 4 minute dictation is equal to 40 lines. This is for a regular dictator but you always get the slow talkers, the uh, uh, uh dicators or the really fast ones but I've been doing this for 15 years and this is a good rule of thumb. 100 minutes of dictation is equal to 1000 lines give or take a few.
It usually is 10-12 lines typed per minute of dictation. nm
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If docs would spend 5 seconds...sm
spelling another doctor's name, which they believe we're automatically supposed to know how to spell, it would save a lot of grief. But MTSOs are quiescent about this, even though they know it's a hardship on us...what the heck, it's not THEIR time. Don't want to spell a doc's name... their 5 seconds is worth more than 10 minutes of my time looking it up. Tough!! Blanks are in. Let THEM fill it in.
1800 lines is easily achieved. I average 300-340 lines per hour. nm
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10 lines per minute = 1500 lines for 150 minutes - average. nm
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I average 1200-1400 lines per day with a national, and am only getting around 600-800 lines per day.
It's been this way since the day before Thanksgiving. I've been doing this for almost 30 years now, and more often than from Thanksgiving until the new year is the slowest time of the year. I have some months where I am swamped with up to 2000 lines per day. I stash that little extra money, and take advantage of a handful of extremely slow days this time of the year to actually cook dinner, decorate for Christmas, or do Christmas shopping. I actually anticipate this slow time every year and have grown to enjoy the breathing time. Any time I have attempted to pick up extra work with another company to supplement these slow times, the minute I get adjusted to the new accounts, etc. I have no time to finish all of my work because my full time job with national gets slammed again. Hang in there if you can, and hopefully your work will pick up significantly around New Years.
They work with you to make sure you get the lines required or the amount of lines you want...
I have never had a problem getting more work
Minimum lines for FT used to be 60,000 keystrokes a day, about 925 lines. Pay was good. Just not a
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Yes it is possible to double your lines. I cant type 460 lines an hour but I can get those with VR
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Regular lines, not weighted lines
was what I got paid for....
12K lines payperiod is 6K lines a week.
nm
0.8 x 1000 lines = $80.00 - 0.8 x 1500 lines = $120.
Net Dictation
Any information on this company I cant find anything
I had some really bad dictation like that
when I had my older computer, which didn't have a sound equalizer. Way too much time spent and way too many blanks. I downloaded a free trial of an equalizer and - voila! I could hear! I ended up paying about $18 after my free trial expired because it made such a difference. E-mail if you want info.
ESL dictation
NM -- It is called being a professional. I realize that a lot of the newer MTs have not had the benefit of working in-house and having more experienced coworkers help them through this, but it is a big part of the job. I also agree with Lillybelle that there is a limit of what an MT should have to put up with. In my opinion that is when it goes to QA and becomes their problem. If you want to just be a typists and make a mediocre salary then you can due just do the gravy work and not improve your skills. But if you want to learn the job, act like a professional, and be able to demand an excellent salary for the job you due, then you need to be well rounded as an MT.
ER dictation
I'd love to find a job doing ERs, anyone know of any place that has an abundance where you could do only ERs?
I haven't gotten particularly bad dictation and
really good dictation. I did switch from not using the quickbar to using it and I'm not sure if that's when I noticed the change or not - but it makes sense that if you are using the quickbar you are not typing out as much so you should be making MORE, not less. Maybe I will go back to not using the quickbar and see if I make more again, but I don't really think that's it. Something's funky is all I know. If I could make $30 an hour on a consistent basis I would be happy, but I just can't seem to do it ever anymore.
Very low pay, they want 120 minutes of dictation sm
per day. I did all ER work for overflow account, never anything else. Pay is once a month, I was IC status. Platform not very MT friendly, had to put in all headers, lots of extras.
A Station For Dictation
Does anyone have any information on company called A Station For Dictation in Pensacola, FL?
Dictation Solutions
Has anybody worked for this company out of Houston, Texas?
I Know Med dictation platform
Has anyone used this platform? If so, what did you think of it?
Dictation Solutions
I work there PT. Great MTSO to work for. Different accounts have different platforms and different pay scale. Always paid on time and pay depends on the account. I don't know anything about the pain management acct though.
Lanier at MDI is just for the dictation...sm
It connects to your telephone. If you only have 1 phone line, it will stay busy the entire time you are connected, you cannot use call waiting. You also pay the long distance. The Lanier gives you the voice to type and you type the reports on your computer in the Bayscribe program which means you have to connect to that website on the internet. Bayscribe does not fill in the Lanier screen info, job numbers, dates, etc. You have to do that manually. You do not have access to other reports, only ones you have done previously and you cannot access even that when you are in a report (unless you go out and come back and restore the report as if the power went off, which is way too much trouble).
One good thing is that if you have another phone line you could use dial up if you don't have DSL or cable.
Pay is by the minute of dictation.
There is a company on the Job Seekers board that states that the pay is by the minute of dictation. I have never heard of this, has anyone else?
Dictation in the wilderness
I might be a bit of a spoiled brat, but I am thinking by now I should have heard from Webmedx (tested on Monday 02/11) and Diskriter (tested on Tuesday 02/12). I think myself so grand at scoring well on these tests that I am flummoxed to not have heard. Anybody out there who'd care to share how long it took to hear back from either of these companies? Life is short, but those bleepin' voice files are long. Sigh. The Sorrow and the Self-Pity, ya know?
Minutes of Dictation sm
If you type over 140 minutes of dictation in an 8 hour period, how many lines do YOU get at your company?? TIA
ESL dictation originators
Had my share of ESL dictations at medical center with rotating residents / constantly new dialects to learn and also pushing for that darn line count...these difficult dictators should be Weighted somehow so that they count for more than straight english dictation. I have been taken advantage of for a long long time/got layoff notice now after 17 years...geese guess ill live on the street!.
if you transcribe around 1 hr of dictation per day are you pt or ft?
nm
dictation time
Last I did it this way, we calculated a 3:1 ratio, i.e., 3 hours to do 1 hour of dictation. Pretty rough, but it worked when I ran an MTSO. Didn't know folks still calculated this way.
Rosie
It's the "normal" dictation.
In my experience, template lines are the lines that you do not have to type. For instance, if you have a doctor that says to use his normal dictation, the template lines are that part of the dictation that is canned as opposed to the part that you type in.
dictation loads
It would be interesting to see from a larger MTSO who has some long-time clients how the dictation load is compared to a few years ago. It could be the economy, but only the MTSOs know for sure if there is less dictation. Otherwise, I'd say it's a combination of overstaffing, individual MTs taking more lines per person because of VR, India, EMR, etc., etc. Probably lots of factors.
I'm not putting off college for a career change any longer. My application for spring semester is already in.
Cymed Dictation Dollars
Does anybody know what these are? Is this something new that we haven't been told about yet? It seems that since they are posting this as a benefit for new-hires that they should inform their current employees about it, or am I dreaming?
Who are they gonna give all the bad dictation to? (sm)
I really should start showing on my resume I've only worked for 3 years. Maybe I'd get the good accounts for once.
So what did I do before that? Oh, I guess I didn't need a job. Maybe they'd stop slinging me all the sh**.
RE: Medical Dictation Services
I would say it depends on the account. The problems the above poster has, I have not experienced at all, though I am only part-time. My platform is totally internet based- BayScribe which handles the voice and the transcription platform. So therefore, I never experience requested dictation completed.
DSG=Dictation Services Group
nm
MT per dictation minute rate?
I never heard that one. In MT work 1 dictated minute = 4-6 typing minutes. I'd quit.
DSG (Dictation Services Group-GA)
Does anyone have any info as to why this company seems to be hiring a lot lately? Are they having a bit exodus of transcriptionists? Any info would be appreciated. I would consider working for DSG, but some recent posts and DSG's recent numerous ads make me leery. Thanks.
Dictation Services Group
Anyone know anything about this company...I saw they use DocQScribe according to the Job Seekers Board and they're looking for QA for all shifts. TIA!
Yes, DSG (Dictation Service Group) uses DQS.
nm
Medical Dictation-Florida - sm
Does anyone have any information about this company? Good, bad, platform, etc.??? TIA.
Lucy
Need advice about Medical Dictation Inc
Has anyone had any experience with MDI???
Ah, yes! Those were the days! And dictation was clearer, too! nm
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Getting paid by the minute of dictation -
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Response to $$ by minute dictation
You need to figure what you want to make an hour.
$15.00 or $20.00 or $30.00?
How many minutes can you type in an hour? 10, 15, 20?
Divide that number into the minutes that you can type and that is what you need to charge.
EXAMPLE: If I want to make 30.00 an hour and I can type 15 minutes of dictation an hour then I need to charge 2.00 per minute of dictation.
Most of the time if you are IC and they want to pay by the dictated minute, going rate is usually 1.25 to 1.50 a dictated minute so if you can type 15 minutes of dictation an hour? If you charge 1.25 a minute you would make 18.75 an hour or at 1.50 a minute you would make 22.50 an hour. :)
Dictation Services Group
Anyone currently working for this company care to comment on:
1. Workload
2. volume of ESL's
3. Are managers friendly and do they return emails?
4. Good benefits?
"same dictation always" How I WISH!! QA gets those! Straight sm
typing and no paragraphs for the rest.
Dictation Services Group
good/bad? I put in a resume for QA at MQ months ago and have been called back about it but it's a bunch of hurry up and wait speech--i'm supposed to get a position there but i'm applying elsewhere jic. Saw the ad for Dictation Services Group QA position and thought I would apply...thoughts?
tia 
Professional Dictation Associates anyone?
Any and all info is appreciated:)
Professional Dictation Associates?
Anyone had experience with them? Archives look positive. I sent a resume and got a quick response back. They want me to test. Curious to know anyone with recent knowledge of them. Thanks!
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