Not in direct response to turning down any of these companies but regarding speech rec sm
Posted By: Current Webmedx-er on 2006-06-21
In Reply to: Anyone turned down offers at Amphion, Axolotl or Webmedx - would like honest opinions - ohmyohmy
So far Webmedx has only rolled out ASR (assisted speech rec) on one account; every one of the MTs on that pilot project liked ASR and chose to remain with it. We've been told that each MT will be able to choose whether or not to use ASR when the time comes - you can either try it or type it as you did before.
As for work assignments, personally I've not seen any difference in what accounts I work on - if you aren't trained on an acct, you don't get that work. It's not like everyone was thrown into one giant pool.
I know this doesn't answer your specific question, but thought it might enlighten about the changes at Webmedx.
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Do Most Companies Use Direct Deposit?
Do most companies use direct deposit or mail out their checks?
I think most companies offer direct deposit since they may
have MTs all over the U.S. Some companies charge you for DD, some don't. Some companies still mail checks, though will overnight it at your expense. I think the companies that mail checks is a fairly small number.
Also stay away from companies that don't have direct deposit....sm
My second job does not have direct deposit and they have been late too many times already...a week late is too late for me.
If it were my only job I would've quit already.
Sounds like OSi is turning into
visa versa. I have worked for both and they both STINK!!!!!!!!! STAY AWAY, (RUN FOREST RUN) LOL.
Perhaps a new page is turning here
I believe that with new life being breathed into TTS daily that some of the past problems have been eliminated and that they are working on the others. It is easy to believe negative posts and none of us want to get into a bad situation, but I trust the person I spoke to about TTS and I have learned in the past few months up close and personally that everyone needs to be responsible for making their own decisions about employment. If you have a good work ethic you might find a pleasant surprise now at this company. Work is plentiful and it is good work. Rates paid are based on your individual negotiations and not perhaps what you think based on what is posted here. Professionals can always find work. I put my line in the sand and I ended up in a good place. You can do the same.
Who is to say that the MTs turning out these reports...
know the difference. There are some of us older MTs who were fortunate to have some kind of hands on training and actual mentoring, but how often does that happen anymore?
The assumption is that these MTs are purposely rushing through reports and leaving glaring errors to pad their paycheck. All I am saying is companies hire new MTs for a lot less than their veteran MTs and then turn them loose with little or no help.
I was always told from my supervisor that no news was good news, and I think that is pretty much how they all are. So, these people probably bounce along thinking everything is great because nobody is pointing out errors to them. They still have a job, so they must be doing it right...right?
Again, I say the industry is creating this standard and the hospitals are accepting it. That does not make me unhappy with my job, and I don't sit around wondering how much my boss makes. I just take exception to laying the blame for poor quality reports squarely on an MT.
What sad is they're almost turning on each other..
Snide implications about whether some really quit and other nasty little asides. Kinda confirms the lack of a sisterhood, huh?
The tide is turning with AAMT
NOT! They have never cared about MTs, only about our money. They will, as they say in the movies, Follow the Money, right to India. They have no shame.
I'm turning 60 next week. My speed is as sm
fast as it was 20 years ago when I get dictators who can speak English well enough to be understood. It's the verbal stumblebums who slow me down when I first have to TRANSLATE and then transcribe. Age, for me, has nothing to do with speed. If anything, it has made me faster.
hourly turning out to be not so great.
hourly pay during VR is turning out to be a huge drop in pay as I am only paid hour while actually typing in a report. regular transcription and VR are intermingled all throughout the day as to manipulate my livelihood such that I am making about 200 dollars less per payperiod, that is almost 400 dollars a month.
I think the tide is turning and AAMT will be American again soon. nm
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Okay, this is turning ugly. These kind of comments are unprofessional
If you here work for the company you could be earning money by taking TT up on the big BONUSES this weekend that nobody has mentioned while griping about the headers, etc. um er, how about telling the world that lines and a half are being offered and an extra 50 to 100 in addition. So, why not just put your ugly comments away and get to work!
It is very sad you are so accepting of offshoring and AAMT turning a blind eye to the American MTs.
The offshoring would not be a problem if there was not such a huge difference in cost. We are on the losing end and taking pay cuts because of offshoring. Also, I know many who have lost their jobs to cheap labor overseas. AAMT is encouring this. That is wrong. America is slowly become a third world country in itself. If we don't stop it now, there will be no jobs left for Americans. I don't care where you are from or what kind of job you have, the pay should be equal for all so the competition is fair. You will find after some time with AAMT, you will be ignored and will receive nothing but redundant information from AAMT office and local chapters. Anything they offer can be gained via the internet now.
How is turning you down for a position rude? Are they, or any other company, obligated to give you
No. As a recruiter, I am seeing this more and more. Maybe the hours you were available did not match what they needed. Maybe your equipment or speciality or background did not match. How is it rude not to hire someone? There would be no need for interviews if everyone was just hired because they applied. I did not understand most of this until I started recruiting. The company I work for is spoken well of on this board and then bashed at other times. I see a lot of people that think they are entitled to a position or a shift or a certain account. It is difficult to be on this side.
With the alleged shortage of decent MTs, which you managers are quickly turning into VR editors sm
You should not be complaining about graphics or colors on resumes. You should, frankly, be grateful for any applications you get. The way MTs are being turned into editors for you voice recognition crap is horrible, and you should be apologizing for it.
Seems like the same docs on my accounts, but sound quality is turning into an issue. Hang in there!
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speech rec
Speech rec MTs, how do you like it? Do you make good money with speech rec? Please share the pros and cons? Thank you. Email me if you can. Thanks!
Speech
What are the advantages to going to speech recognition? It it cumbersome to work without the foot pedal. What about switching back and forth?
Speech
Thanks for your input.
Speech
Can you say what VR system you use? I have used Dictaphone and love it and MQs ASR and lose so much time and money with that.
Speech
Am curious. If speech is supposted to save the clients money, who takes the hit? The MTs? What are companies paying MTs for speech recognition? Are there any very productive text transcriptionists out there who have switched to speech and made more on speech? MT replies only, please. Thanks!
TT speech
Is that because of the speech program? What is the approximate percentage of speech/regular transcription that you do? I hope I don't end up with all speech. It would bore me to death.
TT Speech
Has anybody who started speech with TT in the last 2 weeks seen any increase in their speed/line count. Just getting my bill ready to send tonight, and it is not pretty. I did start to get faster as the days went on, but don't think I am going to get a heck of a lot faster, but I guess the workload hasn't helped much either.
speech recognition
We won't become obsolete, but we will become trained as editors in speech recognition if we want to keep our jobs. Spheris already is doing this on 1 account they have. Other employers probably are too and will follow suit. It's coming. (I've been resistant but want to keep my job.) It's not so horrible, just learning the hot keys or function keys. The MTs who initially resisted and were trained in speech recognition now love it and can't imagine going back to straight typing. Yes, I can't believe I'm saying this, but ALL MTs who trained on this who hated it at first now Love It. Something to think about.
VR/speech recognition
I COMPLETELY agree with PathGuy on this one. What I was told the basics of the VR were that the physician dictates into their system. If his/her voice is easy to understand, eventually VR is able to record his voice, thus turn it into VR/speech recognition report/s. BUT, there are many, many ESL dictators and EFL dictators who have nuances in their voices, etc., that the VR WILL NEVER be able to adapt to. This, my friends, means that a Transcriptionist must always be needed to translate what is dictated. This we have some comfort in, because there are always a lot of dictators out there that VR will not be able to do that part of the job. This is not to say that the Transcriptionist is left with the worst dictators, but it DOES SAY that VR/speech recognition does have its limitations. Bravo to PathGuy. I believe that a lot of docs WANT AN MT transcribing their work and not some VR system because the MT IS MORE CAREFUL WITH THE DICTATION/REPORT. Kudos to us!!
Dictaphone Ex Speech.
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Do you know what the right of free speech is?
It does not apply to private company matters, etc.
Geez.
Spheris Speech
Can anybody tell me about the platform Spheris uses for Speech recognition?
Speech recognition
There is no way I doubled my lines and I was good at doing Speech recognition, in fact had my employer asking me to help others achieve their goals in speech.
I hated it because there was no money in it and it is faster for me to type and edit my own work than try to interpret what the computer is spitting out
Speech speed?
You are so right. If you have lousy dictators it is easier to type them from scratch than to correct the system errors made because of them. I had to go to speech and my checks are down 40%. What system were you using? The one I am on is awful. It types every grunt and entire phrases the dictator did not say. For me it is easier to do ESLs than speech, at least with the system and dictators I have. Is there a better system out there?
Speech rate
Fifteen percent less would be more like it. Speech is for the benefit of the client, it's just not worth it, and the lure is....you can do twice as much work. Bunk! Lousy dictators come through speech just like text with all their grunts, um's, ah's, burps, and belches being printed by the system for us to remove! It's certainly cheaper for the client. Exploitation starts in the board rooms!
Speech/voice
You are so right! Some of the idiotic things typed by the speech systems make me cringe. Presbyacusis came out please be a Q-tip. I hope those people sitting in the board rooms drooling at the prospect of makeing more off the backs of transcriptionists get a wakeup call when they are hit with lawsuits because of system errors not caught by fatigued editors trying to walk on water for 3 to 4 cents a line. I prefer to take responsibility for my own documents, not those created by speech recognition.
speech recognition
I think at this point I have just about been beaten. I thought I found the perfect place where I could stay and transcribe, and less than 6 months into it I have lost a ton of my work, not due to speech recognition but due to EMR. It keeps happening to me! I'm throwing up my hands at this point. I'll try editing at a new company and maybe I'll be able to stay put for more than 6 months before new technology eats my job again. I understand that you want to transcribe and not edit and I hope you find a good company. I just don't think anyone is safe from either EMR or ASR anymore. Best of luck to you. 
speech recognition
i am new in this business and I was wondering why doesnt anyone use speech recognition to get a better line count? Is this just wishful thinking on my part. I just heard about this product called Naturally speaking today and it seems like a dream come true for any MT, though obviously unethical? Any opinions or experiences?
Speech recognition
I am tired of killing myself and ending up with nothing, so I was considering speech recognition. I just found a very affordable program called Speech to text that gives you a 30 day free trial. I know it has good and bad points, but has anyone out there ever tried speech recognition to make more money as an MT?
Speech at Transtech
I was told speech was going to be implemented on my account ... was told they would get back with me ... then that they had run into some snags. I work on ML. Just wondering if anyone does speech with this account. Seems to be it might be a difficult account to use speech with because of total capitalization of meds and a few other things. I don't know if that is something the speech recognition computer can learn.
Anyone doing speech on ML at TT?
speech recognition
I was wondering about the pay rate (the usual pay rate). I was just notified by my current company that the speech recognition rate received is 5 cents a line. Is that one everyone else is getting for speech recognition. I understand the thinking is the pay is low because it is not much typing???
If using Speech Recognition, I don't like it. nm
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Speech recognition
Go to Google and put in voice recognition. The first thing that shows up is link to wikipedia. Scroll down a bit to Applications and Healthcare. It explains everything in that article. You can also go to other links that show up, too. Remember, research is a vital tool for an MT. I hope this helps.
Speech Recognition
The computer records the speech and the MT goes in and reviews the report to make sure everything is correct.
I am sure MTs know that RESEARCH is vital in our job. So is professionalism, some people should do some RESEARCH on it!!!!
speech work
I started part time in June with TT. I added speech editing this month. I'm getting more speech than traditional. A couple of days last week, it was almost all speech, but I had asked to learn speech editing. They sent out an e-mail to see who wanted that training and I had been wanting to try it for a long time. I work 1:00 PM until bedtime. I have had plenty of work. From the e-mails we get, I gather there is more work in the afternoon and evening than morning because, after all, the docs dictate after they see patients and do procedures.
Speech recognition.
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MT is going to speech rec and we're on the way out. sm
I hate speech recognition and that's where it's all going eventually, if not overseas. It's a little late in life to change careers at 50 yrs old, but I dont have much of a choice. I'm taking tech school computer courses at nite and out of this MT crap in 2 years.
Text to Speech
I still have not heard from anybody who was very productive in text making more money in speech. If the clients are going to save money on speech recognition, somebody has to lose, don't they?
EXText speech
SM - We are doing Turbo Speech on the EXText platform. We have been told by Dictaphone that the best we can ever hope to achieve is 400 lines per hour, at best! I've gotten that like once or twice in the 2 months I've been in the system. I usually get just over 300. You do the math. I was pulling 180 to 250 in text so I would have to do 360 to 500 to make the same income. Also, Turbo doesn't have a cursor following along if that makes a difference to you. You can improve, but our clinic is putting all the docs on speech, even ESLs and we end up having to do LOTS of corrections which slows us down a lot. Good luck to you!
Well, I do both speech and traditional
Can't keep this up much longer.
I have done VR - escription and Speech Q
And I refuse to do them. Maybe I didn't make myself clear the first time.
Transtech speech
I asked this the other day, but never got any response, so I will try again. I would ask on the other board for TT people, but nobody ever seems to go there. For those of you who started speech a few weeks ago, is you line count getting any higher? I am getting so frustrated. I am just now barely doing what I was doing straight typing (meaning the same line count for about half the pay). I don't see how I will ever get fast enough to equal what I was making straight typing. It may be time to look for another job, but I think they are all doing VR anyway. It is just so unfair to the MTs, basically just a huge paycut.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
It is called Freedom Of Speech, a RIGHT we have in AMERICA. And fact is fact, truth is truth. If you can back up statements, you are NOT liable. Speech is free. But to state lies as fact, then that is wrong. I don't see many of us MTs stating lies or making up stories about the abuses we endure. This is just another MTSO scare tactic to keep those in the know from spreading the truth which in turns affects the corporate livelihood and the continued use of slave-labor MT. The TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, and the MT or MTs will prevail if not pushed/scared/threatened by the big money taking advantage of the SKILL of the MT who actually earns the wages they so despately wish to exploit. Stick to your guns, knock them on their rumps!
TT vs MQ speech recognition
Have worked on both MQ's ASR and TransTech's escription VR. TT's blows MQ's right out of the water... no comparison, TT's is a zillion times better. Just my opinion.
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