Of course it isn't, but if other industries are using it it's only

Posted By: a matter of time before it's capabilites expand on 2005-08-14
In Reply to: She's right. It is not as hard as medical reports - lm

to do medical reports at least as well as we can and much faster. The writing's on the wall, people.

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Does anyone work with speech recognition? sm - ruff
- Thanks for the opinions. sm - ruff
  - Please share which program your are using. - Curious
- As a long time user ... let me clear the air on this - Snow Buny
  - Two errors per page is a LOT of errors! nm - am I missing something?
    - Yes, these are errors she would obviously correct. - Observer
- My DD is a social worker and says that she dictates directly into VR - from her car after working on a case
  - I seriously doubt that type of work is as complex as medical reports. - pffft. what nonsense.
    - Same tone of denial that was used when the MT world went from - IBM selectric to computers
      - She's right. It is not as hard as medical reports - lm
        Of course it isn't, but if other industries are using it it's only - a matter of time before it's capabilites expand
    - Have fun applying at McDonald's in a few years! - pffffffffffft yourself
- speech recognition sucks - fg
- It's a choice....... I work with it at work - NS
- I did this...sm - stepmomfor2
- no ASR is not wonderful. it is harder to correct than straight transcribe ESPECIALLY - mqmt
- speech recognition - rhrh
- what company do you work for if you dont mind saying? - sm
  - As far as company VR for critical care it is not very good and I agree with the other poster. I tend - MT

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There are other industries that allow
you to work from home. There is a website that has them and it was featured on Good Morning America not too long ago...good professional positions. I am up for a position right now in a very interesting field as a manager working from home. If I don't get that, I am up for another one working from home. You'd be surprised. This industry is not the only one that pays well and allows you to work from home. I personally do not work in my pajamas because I work better dressed, but MT field is not the only one. There are real companies, big companies who are migrating their workers home.

Industries change, and not always for the better.
I do agree that AAMT has not been good for us. But ...

This isn't the first industry to evolve into something unfortunate. Look at the auto industry. Foreign competition came, started out making inexpensive cars badly, and ended up making superior cars at all different prices. American automakers were hindered in part because they didn't see it coming, because other countries could pay workers so much less, and they had smart people who were engineers and could figure out how to make cars that were taken seriously. And also Unions, although good in concept to protect workers against abuse, were run by greedy businessmen and they made business so much more expensive for the US companies than ever before.

Go back even further. Clothes and shoes used to be hand-made, and now we buy them off the rack. Do they fit as well? Is the quality as good? No. The craftsmen could tell us all the reasons their products are better. But do we consumers want to pay $400 for a dress? No. We can't. Not when we know we could spend $55 instead.

Steel and many other manufacturing companies have been through the same thing, and it has been devastating for many workers.

But we haven't gotten laws changed to protect our jobs. Now it's in our industry, and suddenly we care. And it is particularly irksome to us because it is so obvious to us that foreigners can't do English as well as we can. Then again, Americans don't care about English like they used to either, and it just doesn't bother some people that the quality is lower. Not when the almighty dollar is involved. These businessmen don't know or care about medicine or the reasons medical records have been important, and we can't make them care.

As for VR, the creators underestimate the complexity of the English language and of how a good MT assists in accuracy. They don't care that their stoopid machine can't question whether the dictator didn't mean appendix when he said gallbladder, or misspoke which side the surgery was on or the many things that a dictator might overlook while dictating that we would notice. The MDs rarely noticed what we did for them. Now our companies tell us to do it verbatim or as close as possible to verbatim. And we work for hospitals in another part of the country and have fewer clues about who Dr. Blake means when he says Dr. Jack Smith. And AAMT makes rule changes that the MDs know nothing about, and they are irked that we don't follow the rules like MTs used to.

People are always saying that change is good. But change can be very, very bad because the benefits are never for the worker. Prices and quality have gone down on average, but who will pay more after they have paid less?

I hear there are jobs opening up for food crop pollinators. Wonder how much I could get paid per flower?

Most industries do not gives gifts or bonuses...
I would be happy if I got something from my company, but I would not be upset it I didn't.

Not a new concept, Hope. Works this way in all industries.
If you can't give yourself a break, at least give us one.

I personally enjoy VR work and make better money, even with a reduced rate. It's faster. Easier.