You won't be hooray'ing abour speech for very long, because it will replace you
Posted By: TT and speech/VR on 2009-09-29
In Reply to: I LOVE EXVOICE sm - TTer yet again
when the speech machine has learned all the doctors well and can interpret for them ! Just you wait and see. Your job will be gone . . . bye, bye job.
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Hun! How young are you. How long you been MT'ing.
I know it is possible, but I can promise you as the years keeping on passing you will slow down...16-17 hours a day for 6 days a week? What life?
Been MT'ing a long time.......
In the good old days companies were smaller and run by managers that were actually MTs and could relate to their employees. Now most have been replaced by managers with business degrees, little or no MT experience, and a corporate mentality. It is sad.
WOW! Can you tell me how long you have been on speech and what your average
production is? I'm on speech, our whole hospital, actually.......and average production is 200 lph or so. Maximum achieved by anyone on our version of speech is 300 lph.
I worked there for abour 4-1/2 years and made excellent money.
I hated to leave but I was only scheduled PT but allowed to work up to 40 hours a week as I wanted. Certain family obligations made me have to choose between FT at Spheris or my local accounts and I chose my local accounts.
I was pulling in about $40,000 a year.
VR will never replace the human ear - Or you could
Tickle Me Elmo:
There is a factory in Northern Minnesota which makes the Tickle Me Elmo toys. The toy laughs when you tickle it under the arms.
Well, Lena is hired at The Tickle Me Elmo factory and she reports for her first day promptly at 8:00 AM.
The next day at 8:45 AM there is a knock at the Personnel Manager's door. The Foreman throws open the door and begins to rant about the new employee. He complains that she is incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up, putting the entire production line behind schedule.
The Personnel Manager decides he should see this for himself, so the 2 men march down to the factory floor. When they get there the line is so backed up that there are Tickle Me Elmo's all over the factory floor and they're really beginning to pile up.
At the end of the line stands Lena surrounded by mountains of Tickle Me Elmo's. She has a roll of plush red fabric and a huge bag of small marbles. The 2 men watch in amazement as she cuts a little piece of fabric, wraps it around two marbles and begins to carefully sew the little package between Elmo's legs.
The Personnel Manager bursts into laughter. After several minutes of hysterics he pulls himself together and approaches Lena. I'm sorry, he says to her, barely able to keep a straight face, but I think you misunderstood the instructions I gave you yesterday...
Your job is to give Elmo two test tickles.
Hooray!
Congrats to you! A similar thing happened to me recently. I will be starting with benefits and a reasonable hourly rate at a hospital in my area. I could not be happier. No rip-off VR pay-rates, no more pay cuts, no more rip-off MT companies that treat us like dime-a-dozen unskilled labor. I truly believe this is going to be a growing trend and is the key to saving our profession from those that just want to take advantage of us. It is my hope that hospitals and clinics alike will recognize that both their costs and quality/privacy-control concerns can be greatly reduced by just having their own staff of MTs -- by not having to compromise and rely on MTSOs or even VR to cut their costs. I found that there are many clinics and hospitals hiring MTs, even in these bad economic times. 
hooray for you!!!!
Finally someone said it! I just hope the person who always says READ THE BOARDS/ARCHIVES will knock it off already and preferably go away.
Hiring to replace everybody who quit!
truly ridiculous, i know
They probbaly need to hire new MTs to replace the
ones not working because they were owed money.
Hip-hip Hooray, finally
someone explains exactly what is happening at MQ even at ST.Louis office. They put so many people on the accounts, you get switched back and forth from account to account. It is feast or famine in a way. During my scheduled shift, which they asked for, there was no work. If I was willing to switch accounts daily and multiple, and sit on the computer and wait for work, I could make the line count, but I had to sit and wait and watch when the work was available. This was ridiculous.
Make sure that you save & replace it every time
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Can an office/doctor replace you for time off?
I am an independent contractor. Later this year I am having a medical procedure that will put me out of commission for 4 weeks. The doctor has decided to replace me with an in-house transcriptionist.
The office manager there never liked that the doctor asked me to transcribe for him 5 years ago and I'm sure she saw this as an opportunity to get rid of me. Usually, he does everything she says but for some reason, he sought me out way back when to do this.
I was mad at first but now am just sad. It's a portion of my income but not all....what a loss though!
Well above 12K lines a pay period HOORAY! nm.
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Just what I was thinking. They'll bring in the newbies to replace
the higher paid MTs. The writing is on the wall.
typo, I type 1,200 a day or more. Yes I really do. Andrews grad. HOORAY!!!!
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Yep. Loving the new account that started today! Hooray TT!
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Are lol'ing with me or at me?!
I know SPI is doing just fine without me - mostly because I still do work on the side for them and I keep in touch with a current employee. My point was why let a good employee fall through the cracks? And most of what is said about SPI on this site is, in general, very true.
i'm e/m'ing you.
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QA'ing what you QA'd is not really
seen many QA people who fill in the blanks, change a few commas, etc. If you have fantastic MTs, there isn't much to change, so how is that reflecting YOUR skill and knowledge?
That would be Teresa and he got her into MT'ing
anon
My OSI AC said she was going back to MT'ing
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QA'ing what has already been edited
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Work Q'ing
Thanks to all for your input.
I think she was responding to Busy MT'ing not me!
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Oh no, offshor't'ing is a terrible thing
no message.
Groan. MT'ing has become such a cold racket. nm
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That's funny - me too. I don't hate MT'ing anymore (sm)
and those who know me well find this amazing!! I actually don't dread coming in here mornings to start work. 2 years for me.
Whenever you find a place to work in MT'ing that (sm)
 doesn't have slow times, let us all know.
I got my invoice Thursday and sent it in Thursday. Guess you are special. Hip hip hooray. nm
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See if you'll be producing more after 30 years of MT'ing and at 50+ years old.
I don't think so. My income increased every year also, until I reached age 50 and 30 years of MT'g, been downhill ever since.
No problem :) No matter how long, it is too long for me - I am broke the day after payday. Kids wi
do that to you!
I know that they have worked very hard to make sure that checks are never late and I can say that in the past two years, I have had one problem (2 days late) and in the past 18 months, they have all been on payday and perfect.
I know that there are a lot of hard feelings in MT in general. I also know firsthand (and I am not mgmt) how hard KS has worked to get things going good.
I would not want to walk in an MTSO's shoes for any amount of money, but that's just me. I like to finish my work for the day, forget about work when not working and get paid on payday. I never want the other things that go with mgmt or owning a company of any kind :)
They definitely rip you off with your line count. Figured this out long ago and quit long ago
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What really sucks is that I looked for a LONG, long time -sm
before joining DRC - wanted a highly reputable, not-too-big co. that was LOCAL, and that treated its MTs humanely. I'm very happy with DRC & had planned to stay with them permanently.
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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
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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?
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