HMT aur Whore main kya Difference?

A home based transcriber in India had been made to feel like a whore.  A whore is also human and would like to familiarize with a small set of clients rather than have one and all clients.  With a small set of clients, a whore can know them and understand their nuances better with each visit and, thereby, no how to perform better the next time they come calling.  If the whore gets infrequent clients who are only interested in voiding their libido and care not where they do it, you can never perform to get them to visit you again.

That is what happens with home based transcribers too.  There is no minimum guarantee of daily work (line count) or/and regular clients (dictators).  If the HBMTs join big accounts like hospitals, etc. both their line count and quality takes a hit!  Much of the time MT firms recruit HBTs for overflow work or quality of dictations being such that their regular office-based MTs take too much time on or find difficult to do or want the HBT to break into new difficult dictators.

Have a look at the statistics.  Work is available five days a week, Sunday and Monday no work, i.e. on an average for 24 days, excluding labor days, Independent Day, Valentine Day, and others, no work and no earnings.  Now if the HMT wants to earn Rs. 10,000 (just $250) per month and gets paid (say) 80 paisa (just 2 cents) per line of 65 characters with spaces then he needs to do 12,500 lines/month, 520 lines/day in 6 hours.  This is not a tall order as most MT firms expect 92%+ accuracy @80 paisa/line.  The query is how many HBTs really get work equivalent of 12500 lines per month to do?  How many of them get clean clear dictations and not whispering or Latin/Spanish accented dictators.  Imagine a Spanish accented dictator, dictating a surgery at 100-meter sprint with a bad English pronunciation, grammatical errors, abbreviations, and fill in the blank yourself sentences!

It is really not worth being a HBT in India at least.  You will not earn enough to repair and maintain your “assets” let aside have a healthy diet and medical attention as propounded in the dictations, not to say anything about other expenses of daily living.  Better join as full-time employees and earn at least a salary.