Well...
Posted By: Serious question on 2009-04-16
In Reply to: I KNOW you have to send it out as if you typed it yourself (sm) - NightOwl
I in no way mean this to be snarky or negative or ANYTHING remotely of the sort, and I can't speak for other people who are successful at VR, but are you a fast reader? Not all intelligent people have the ability to 'speed read', for lack of a better word, and the ability to read quickly certainly isn't a yardstick with which to measure intelligence. I honestly think that's the key to success with VR. As another poster pointed out, the key to set the speed up as high as you are comfortable reading along with; if you're a very fast reader and able to keep up with every little nuance and utterance, you can almost edit through a report in 'real time' (i.e., a 10-minute report in 10 minutes, or even less if you're working at 200% playback.
Also, I'm very lucky in that Escription is one of the best platforms out there for 'learning'. I'm on a very good account with probably 85% very good dictators, which means the document Escription produces is usually 80% (or greater) 'clean' and requires minimal clean up.
Where the massive clean-up problems come in, IMHO, is because with so many people editing on a system, with everyone having their own preferences or 'cheats' for their line count advantage (yes, it happens...suddenly 'kg' starts showing up 'kilograms', you know someone's been unnecessarily expanding; this causes the VR program to 'unlearn' the correct kg and start replacing it with 'kilograms' because it determines that is the 'correct' way to produce that word). I believe smaller companies probably have 'cleaner' reports to edit overall, simply because it's easier to keep a handle on who's transcribing what and to correct the problem before it interferes with the system.
I saw a poster on here more than once wondering how VR programs suddenly go spastic and things that it had gotten correctly before are now incorrect; my suspicion is because another MT is replacing what has been correct with something incorrect (see the kg/kilograms example above; no reason to expand that most of the time unless going for extra characters).
Also, last names are so unique and eccentric that it's unusual the VR can pick a correct match, so names pretty much 90% of the time need to be corrected.
Some medication names sound very similar and I always slow down and pay special attention to that area; same with lab results.
I'd say I do about 20% cleanup on each report and on a 22-minute report, that's far less time consuming than doing each keystroke onself.
I hope I didn't offend anyone with this post; it's all just my opinion. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, just things I've observed and construed over my experiences editing.
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