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Is this a good rate for using Dictaphone Speech software?

Posted By: Transtech speech pay rate on 2007-07-17
In Reply to: Transtech ad looking for editor to use - Dictaphone EXSpeech

They offered me 50% per line of what I was currently making back a number of months ago.  Not worth it.


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Are they going to hire you at that rate? Good Luck. nm
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That is good pay for low line rate. I would be happy with that! nm
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It depends on if this is editing other MT's work or VR. If VR, that is a good rate. nm
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Really? I thought it sounded like a good line rate.
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Precyse rate was good but they were always running out of work.
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