Anyone else going from DQS to ExText and noticing lines are harder to get? (sm)

Both accounts are about the same difficulty, just find ExText more cumbersome and where I used to do 1200 lines in 6 hours on DQS I now take every bit of 8 hours and sometimes that doesn't do it. Am i just getting slow to learn new things or has anyone else noticed this same thing?

• Anyone else going from DQS to ExText and noticing lines are harder to get? (sm) - Just comparing
  • HATED ExText - Wendy
  • Why Extext line counts are usually less - Independent MT
    • PS, I was a supervisor in the home office - Independent MT
      • To be specific, how they deduct for headers - Independent MT
        • Does that company start with a - W?
          • No - Independent MT (NM)
            • Probably starts with O? - wimt
              • That's why I left the O company - Not cheated in new job NM
  • DQS to ExText - former MQ
  • All depends on the MTSO - MT
  • noticed - GF
  • I, too, went from MQ to TT, and line counts are much harder to get at TT with Dictaphone ExText. - Transtech using ExText versus DQS
    • Still going round and round with this - Exer
    • ExSpeech - TransTechMT
      • They don't seem the line counting program is too important. No updates on - its progress in months. nm
        • What line count issues? changes? nm - Just comparing
          • A counter this is quicker to access, but I've never seen anything - wrong with the counts themselves. nm
    • Thank you. Like I told someone else, I have (sm) - Just comparing
  • Definitely harder and I've given it a lot of time. I'm thinking about - going back to my old MTSO. nm
  • ExText is notorious for this. Will depend on exactly what the company - counts, too, footers, headers, spaces, etc. nm
    • MTSO and client responsible here. - Older-n-dirt
      • That is exactly why I have left the - Fran
      • Tell it sistah! - nm

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of your line count off the top to account for headers which is not fair because none of the headers are the same for every facility.  It doesn't matter to OSI because they take 17% of your total lines anyway.  This is common knowledge to anyone who has ever had a supervisory position at OSI.  This is thievery plain and simple and matter of fact I left OSi and went to MedQuist.  A lot of people don't like Medquist but I make twice the money that I made at OSI.  DQS is a much better program than ExText. 

The post was about going from MedQuist to Transtech and making a lower line count.  I don't know about them but maybe they do the same thing as OSI but I doubt it or there wouldn't be so many happy employees there.  If it doesn't work out for me at MedQuist my next step will be to Transtech.  17% of my work?  No thank you.

I have always been called *firey fingers*, so know it is not me, as I am very fast and accurate on the keyboard.  Line count continually gets harder to achieve.  I know it depends on how the company has Dictaphone set the line count parameters -- whether to pay headers, footers, spaces, demos, normals, expanders, etc.

Also speech recognition using ExSpeech at TT is so cumbersome and awful.  Really made good money and line count with DQS speech editing.  Just must my opinion.  Other comments would be interesting.

Harder to make your lines, that is.  The only time that Bayscribe will not add demographics (or autopopulated info) to your character count is if you mark the report as a No Report.  Otherwise, on all reports, including the ones marked Incomplete Report, it will count all the demographic info too.

They say that Bayscribe is Word-based, but personally, I haven't seen much simularity at all between Word and Bayscribe.  I do know that when I switched from using Word to using the Bayscribe platform, my average lines-per-hour production dropped somewhere around 25%.

So yes, with Bayscribe, I do find myself working longer hours in order to make the same line counts that I used to make.  I'm not really sure what the answer is, but I don't think that it's the accounts.

I will take on any acct. After months of getting used to it, I see what I am making an hour. If it is worth the work required to do that acct, great. If it isnt, I ask to be taken off acct and so far, have never been refused. Sometimes takes little while for them to get another MT for acct but have never been refused. Company is not working for the prestige, loyalty to an acct, or ME for that matter, or for the good of mankind. Why should I? I am in this for the money, just like the company. I am very much a pro, which is probably why companies would rather have me on another acct, than to quit giving me work all together. They know many companies are always looking for a good MT.   Like other posters, I dont understand why someone would work below their worth. There are too many companies out there to try. I have tried several, staying with the ones where I could make good money.

It seemed like I was sitting at my desk for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, just trying to pull the bare minimum.  I had to hop around from one hospitals operating system to another and to another constantly...and if you've ever had the pleasure of doing that, you know that lines don't come easy that way because you spend all your time waiting for things to load and what not.  There just wasn't enough work to stay on one account all the time, the way I think it should be, so instead of becoming an angry and bitter employee, I left.

They really did try to make me happy, but all they could offer were more hours, or more accounts, and like I told them, I simply wanted to work my 8 hours and make a decent living.  Had a really hard time doing that over the winter.  I think they overhired but I never asked that question head on.  It was a great company when they first started out, but then got really big really fast.  Great benefits though, if you can make the lines.

If I needed to get my foot in the door, I'd work for them, get the experience, and move on.  It's that kind of place.  But during a moonlighting gig I tasted freedom, more money due to a more efficient way to work, and better overall work environment, surrounded by people who truly loved their jobs, and when I was happy to log on for THAT job, and got sick to my stomach when I had to log on at DVHP, well that's when I knew it was time to be on my way.