ESL dictators
Posted By: Mindy on 2008-04-05
In Reply to: ESL dictators are everywhere in the MT world. - deb
I'm sure they are, but certainly there must be entry level positions that would not require ESL transcribing. I would hope to gain some on the job experience first. Just out of curiosity, I was offered a job but the contract that they wanted me to sign seemed way out of line. I'm wondering if this is customary?
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Difficult dictators
Ask for one week of dictation of nothing but this one dictator. I guarantee you after a full week of listening and getting used to the "cadence" of this particular person, you will begin to know what is being said. ESLs oftentimes have limited vocabulary in English and you will find them using the same phrasing throughout the PE, for example, which they reel off very quickly and then will slow down for pertinent findings. We have a few difficult dictators and have found the only way for someone to train is to do that one dictator for at least one week and no one else. Once that occurs, you will be requesting that dictator (believe it or not) and will spin through the transcription. I have seen it happen with at least 6 MTs already. I hope this helps.
As far as fast dictators,
you should be able to slow it down with your program. If not, you'll just have to do a lot of stopping and starting.
ESL dictators are everywhere in the MT world.
If you can't do them, you are going to be severely limited.
Fast talking dictators
What do you guys do when you get a dictator who rattles off words so fast you have no idea what they are saying? I have tried to slow down the dication but it still doesn't help. I can barely make out a word this guy is saying. Half of my typed document is blank spaces and I don't want to turn it in to QA this way.
Unfortunately, if you can't understand the dictators, you're not going to be able to do the wo
That's the reason for testing in the first place.
Probably make in the low teens at first, unless you get lucky with great dictators. nm
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Easy or not will depend totally on the type of dictators
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Guess what, it's not just the testing. MANY doctors are terrible dictators.
Sometimes the dictation they use for the test is from the actual doctors they are hiring MTs for. If you can't do it on the test, you can't do it, period.
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