Voice Recognition Question

Anyone have thoughts on voice recognition that has worked on it?  I am working for a company now. The work is extremely easy but I am only able to do about 350 lines an hour and I only make 4.5 cpl.  I normally can type more than that and make a much higher line rate.  I don't want to give up, but I cannot figure out how I can go faster.  I am not even spending much time rechecking the charts at this point.  I might be able to get up to 400 lines an hour but I don't see going much higher than that. 

Any thoughts? 

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After hearing about it for years, I finally did my first VR work a few days ago.  My fellow MTs, I think we have nothing to fear from this technology.  It will take years, probably a generation, before it is perfected enough to replace us.   I actually found it rather entertaining to edit - it just prints out exactly what it hears phonetically, including the instructions - "Go back up and add...."  

I think they should show some Voc Rec printouts and transcribed reports of the same dictations at all Medical Staff Meetings so  dictators can see just what we do in our job. 

I've done voice recognition in the Radiology department for a hospital for two years. I wasn't there when they first started using it, but I'm told the goal was for them to have only one Transcriptionist (editor). We're fully staffed now (actually today was my last day there - I'm working at MQ now) and let me tell you, those docs are not even close to being ready to solve their own problems and self correct. There is only one doc out of 17 that self corrects, and his reports don't look good at all.

I'm not saying it'll never happen, but I think we're going to be needed for awhile.

Some people have asked if it was possible to install Dragon on their system and then play the physician's dictation into the microphone. (wouldn't that be nice?) Well, things have moved that much closer to this happening.

There is a product called TranscriptionAID, which is sold by TranscriptionGear (click on link below). It is used in conjunction with DNS. I think the article is fairly self-explanatory.

I don't know about the EHR part, but I know the voice recognition part is not true.  Many doctors still do not like voice recognition from previous years when it was introduced, and many will never be able to use it.  Dictating so that it is understood by a computer program is a skill that many doctors will never have (or take the time to develop). 

Also, even if everyone did go to voice recognition, the work would still need to be edited.  I have used voice recognition in my work, and it takes a long time to train, and even then it gets confused because it cannot 'think.'  It also makes many errors that are hard to catch without very diligent proofreading.

What can anyone tell me about VR? I have never used it, but I am about to start working for a company that does.  Thx!

Just say no.

It is an editor's job with 50 to 60% more work for less money.  Just another exploitation of the hard work of a Transcriptionist for your expertise.  Obviously, voice recognition is not that efficient or they would not need you to "edit." 

One day, when these companies figure out how to get us all to work for free they will enact that, and tell us "what a privilege and honor it is for you to be selected to a part of this new cutting edge technology."

Yeah, right.  PFFTT!  What will surprise you is how many MTs actually stay to work for free because they blew smoke up their dress.  LOL.

I am being paid 4 cpl for editing reports produced by voice recognition software (eScription).  Is 4 cpl the norm?  Are other companies paying more to edit voice recognition reports?

I recently read an article about voice recognition with one of the "creators" stating that they still have a long way to go. 

My question is:  Does the machine type out everything?  I sometimes laugh at some of the things the doctor says.  They all have their quirks.  I have one that always coughing or clearing his throat, I have one that is always eating or chewing gum, I have another one that constantly sneezes,  don't forget the one that yawns through the whole dictation and of course the old doc that just can't get the whole technology thing and getting charts dictated on time thing who makes smarta-- comments and curses through it.  Are all these things included on the reports?