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MT India Digest
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"Effective MT Forum"
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Amit Chatterjee,SM
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Aug 22, 2000 Digest #047
.................................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ===========NEW===================== -=MT rates=- ~Brijendra Sharma
"What's the average price like?" -=Accuracy=- ~Jiten Aggarwal
"I've never done that as defined in the AAMT
BOS as it would be a time-consuming process" ===========CONTINUING============== -=Speech Recognition=- ~Omar Majid
"speech interface gives you another pair of hands" -=Language=- ~John Paul
"enjoy it, after all the ridiculous bickering about
language :)" -=Training=- ~V Philip
"We do NOT charge a fee to train MTs" ===========BILLBOARD============== -=MT Future=-
~Satyanarayana Rao ===========NEW===================== From: Brijendra Sharma <
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Subject : Pricing model of Medical Transcription companies Hi everybody! After spending a long time in MT and switiching jobs around...I
want to setup a new company...I want to know about the pricing
model of various MT companies. What's the average price like...
and is it dependent on the content or transcription, or length or
lines or time...kindly provide me the information as it will be
great for my use. Thankyou! Brijendra Sharma
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Subject: 98% accuracy? Hello, I am curious as to what methods MTSO's use to calculate the
accuracy of MTs? I've never done that as defined in the AAMT
BOS as it would be a time-consuming process. I considered
"98%" simply meant there were almost no errors in the final
product - i.e. the product was client ready! A lot of services
guarantee accuracy, however, so I'd like to know how that is
done practically. Also, when paying MTs based on productivity - do we deduct
from the MT's pay for "errors"? What is counted as an error
and what is not? Some definite parameters would help. Regards, Jiten Aggarwal
Rashi Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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================CONTINUING======================= From: OMAR A MAJID <
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Subject: Real value of voice recognition Hi! Nicolas Rao wrote: >the astonishing accomplishments in continuous speech
>recognition technology might actually not be a net societal good!! A kind and thoughtful doctor doing dictation will normally have
mercy on the typist when it comes to a word like dysphagia and
spell it out. D as in dog, y as in yesterday, s as in Sam . . . That's because dysphagia, a condition marked by swallowing
difficulties, sounds mighty close to dysphasia, the condition for a
brain damage imposed speaking problem. The question is, if a human being who does medical transcription
for a living has difficulty discerning between the two terms, how
can a computer tell the difference? Talk to anyone peddling speech recognition technology and they'll
say the medical world is about to change the way it does business.
Reports can be done the next day or even in hours. Best of all
there will be no tedious scrolling through text looking for
mistakes. The technology has finally caught up to itself. But talk
to physicians, and they're not so sure speech recognition
technology is ready for prime time. Despite such lingering doubts, there is little disagreement that
great strides have been made during the last few years in speech
recognition technology. However, the recognition systems are still
too high maintenance for the average user. Further, the user needs
more than just basic computer skills. For the person who is
dedicated and has a real need for the technology, it's probably
there right now; for the casual user it's not. Devices are now rigged with the ability to build on a person's
speaking patterns, picking up and adjusting for grammatical
peculiarities. But in medicine with its vast reservoirs of
terminology, a device may become confused if multiple speakers,
especially those from different specialities, are using it. Speech recognition needs to be repackaged. As the technology is
being sold-as an open-ended device where you talk into a
microphone-it's lousy! Speech recognition's greatest potential lies
in voice command technology, where computers follow humans'
instructions, This speech interface gives you another pair of hands - that's
where the real value of voice recognition lies! Regards to all, Omar Majid, MD Comment?
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Subject: Language (just for fun!) Hi Amit & MTIDer's, This is one of those things that floats around the e-mail system. I
have no idea where it comes from, but I thought you might enjoy it
after all the ridiculous bickering about language. -----------------------------
"EuroEnglish" The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement
has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for
European communications, rather than German, which was the other
possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a
five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro
for short). In the first year, 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'.
Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also,
the hard 'c' will be replaced with 'k.' Not only will this klear up
konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when
the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced by 'f'. This will make words
like 'fotograf' 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik
akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage
where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will
enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a
deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes
of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing 'th' by 'z' and 'w' by 'v'. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords
kontaining 'ou', and similar changes vud of kors; be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b
no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru. ----------------------------- :) John Paul
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Subject: Re: Production Companies into training!! Hi MTIDers! Bapat wrote:
>Can anyone name / disclose such companies training fresh
>graduates in MT and giving them jobs on completion? We, at Ascent Infoserve P. Ltd., a 80-MT company in Bangalore,
do NOT charge a fee to train MTs. In fact, we pay a stipend to
all trainees. We have stopped training from "scratch" after the first 100. Now,
we train candidates who have at least a 3-month training under
their belt -after a very strict screening process. V Philip Ascent Infoserve P. Ltd.
Bangalore
http://www.ascentinfoserve.com Comment?
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================= BILLBOARD =================== From: Satyanarayana Rao <
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Subject: sathya need help Hi MTID members! I am a trained medical transcriptionist
and am working in a company, who are paying 0-40
np perline. I am trying to change from this compay. The
company where I got trained is still waiting to get
the project. My family members say that MT will no
longer exist, so I have to change my carreer. Please
advise me what will be the future in MT. I am really
very much interested in Medical Transcription, and I
want to continue in this field. Thanks & regards! Satyanarayana Rao Comment?
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