Dictaphone Express Edit questions.

1.  I'm having problems using the Ctrl M feature to match audio and text (to re-check my blanks at the end of a report). 

2.  When I highlight a block of text to add to ESP, I hit Ctrl-Ctrl but it doesn't automatically transfer the text; I have to copy and paste (hope that makes sense).  Any suggestions?

3.  Ctrl-Shift-B can take FOREVER to populate a cosignature block.  Anyone else have this problem?

Thanks for any help.  I don't have a lot of instructions for this platform and there aren't a lot of people on it, so I'm figuring it all out.

• Dictaphone Express Edit questions. - See message
  • Reread, I do not use the Ctrl B function, so cannot answer. Sorry! - jj
  • I can try to help. - jj
    • This was so helpful. You made my day! - Thank you, thank you, thank you. nm

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to here goes...firstly, I don't know about the platform, only that it is Word based. Secondly, I have many years cardio, and thirdly, no the test was not hard. Still looking for any answers to my questions above. Thanks in advance.

Does anybody know if earphones can be used with Express Scribe?  I can't find any information about this anywhere.  Thanks. 

I agree with the above poster. If you can't vent to people who are in the field about your good or bad experiences, then this is not a democracy. Personally, I do keep a lot of mine to myself basically because I don't like dealing with negative people who will judge me. It stems from not having a very supportive family and not being able to express myself growing up. What is heaven for one is hell for another but either way, people need to express themselves and get it out.

In this profit-driven healthcare industry, MTs are under appreciated and in many cases abused by management and perhaps isolated and ignored by other MTs. We definitely need a support system and these forums are supposed to serve as a support system out of the work place where we can vent and hopefully be comforted by kind words. We work in an industry that refuses to acknowledge the fact that if it were not for us, they would not have jobs. We are the industry but many of us do not feel we have much clout in the way we are treated, i.e. coldly, indifferently and there-are-more-where-you came from attitude. Lets start cooperating instead of competing especially in the forums and let people have their say and try to embrace with kindness. We all need a pat on the back.

For your normals that have either an abbreviation or a long form use the following:

type bp, get BP

type bpp, get blood pressure

type wnl, get WNL

type wnll, get within normal limits

type copd, get COPD

type copdd, get chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

type cold, get COLD

type coldd, get chronic obstructive lung disease

Yes, sometimes the word cold will be used in a report, but it is so seldom unless you are doing pediatrics, that you will and should notice it.  Hope this helps.

Yes, I've got that far.  I'm actually able to play now, but I still don't have all the kinks ironed out.  When I play, it is warbled...I'm sure the problem is with my settings and my F-keys...can you help me?!  At least I know now this pedal does work thanks to your telling me yours did...I kept plugging and accidentally discovered I had to click on Express Scribe when I signed in.... Thank you for your help.

At this point anyway.  Transcend has gained several new accounts recently, which has been broadcast from here to there.  What wasn't broadcasted is that they also LOST several large accounts over the past year, a couple just recently.  Some of the accounts that have just been added on are overflow accounts.  As each account gets transitioned over to the new platform, the option for typing will be great as the VR is extremely BAD in recognizing a lot of these new dictators.  Those editing on the accounts now are actually training the system to recognize what the dictators are saying.

As time goes on, the system starts recognizing more and more dictators are transitioned to editing.  Once the system becomes "smart" and is working at peak performance, less editors will be needed to work on the editing aspect, as was already experienced with a very large ER account that staffed 25 or more MLSs and dwindled down to 10.  We all saw what happened there.  When the editors were scrambling for work they switched to typing, and were told to do so by the AMs.  So think about what that means for those typing.  If less people are needed to edit, where do those already working on the pre-existing accounts go?  To typing on the new accounts.  When the work load is low, all those shifted from editing to typing will be doing the work YOU have been doing all along. 

Also, there will always be a need for some to type because there are some doctors that absolute cannot do VR.  Now just imagine if you choose to type rather than edit.  These are the doctors that you will be transcribing for day after day: Mush-mouths, speed-talkers, whisperers, extremely difficult ESLs.  In other words, all those that the system will never be able to decipher.  You may be getting a high rate for typing, but it is going to take you longer to do them because if they were that easy, the system would be doing them first.  No matter what option you chose you are on the losing end of the deal.  If you chose editing, it is FULL editing, not QA filling in the blanks.  Depending on how fast you type, you may never be able to achieve a consistent, day-after-day 40% increase in production, but you will be taking a loss in compensation.  If you chose typing, you're stuck with all the leftover garbage that the system cannot do on its own and your production still suffers.  No matter which way you look at it, you will be working harder and receiving less until the point eventually comes where 2/3 of the work force is scrambling for work while the other 1/3 is popping out 20,000 lines per pay period. much like it is now.  While you may have the option of typing or editing NOW, certain people in management have been telling their favorites that the goal in the future is to get ALL accounts and work types on editing.  Why do you think so many "in the know" are now scrambling for or were already told about the hourly team leader positions before they were even announced? 

Think about it.  This is not the first mass exodus Transcend has seen over the years. That became common knowledge when they had the push to hire back all those who had quit over the changes before.  Many there, even working for 5 years or more, are leaving this time.  If workers have gotten bad treatment before and left in the past, as is happening now, it will happen again.  A leopard does not change its spots. 

They (management of companies who ask us to do this) know that most people who do MT are not wealthy people, or even average income-wise and are desperate for any work/income they can get.  They use this information to their advantage and always will. You said it when you said "a few measly hundred dollars".  To many MT's that's a lot of money.

Unfortunate but true.

I havent seen anyone else be able to do that on the new platform.  What is your secret because I have tried and could only do 425 maximum on the best day with the best dictators on.  Way too much work for that kind of money.