pages per hour edited

[Kerry F]

Just curious how many pages per hour, on average, you can edit, listening to full audio on "today's" average depo.  Then how many pages per hour on an expert or any witness where you have to constantly go to documents for quoted material they read or unfamiliar spellings?  Just trying to find a faster way to edit!

[Joyce Davis]

You can save yourself a lot of time by going through the exhibits first and making a word list.  In the same document I make a list of exhibit descriptions.

It might seem like it's costing you time to do this, but a good word list only requires searching through the exhibits once.  This has saved me more time in my scoping than anything else I do.  The end result is faster scoping, correct name spellings and an understanding of unusual terms.

If I'm responsible for filling in the autoindex commands for the exhibits, at the bottom of my word list I make an enumeration of the exhitits with their descriptions.  

This is a Microsoft Word document.  I scan each exhibit, inserting the description in the enumeration at the bottom, inserting word list entries at the top.  When I'm done, I alphabetize the word list entries. 

Each time I come to an autoindex entry for an exhibit, I go to my enumeration, block-copy the description, block-paste it into the description of the doc in the autoindex command and keep going.

One of the advantages of creating the word list is the fact that you'll be familiar with words before you hear them while editing.  Of course, if you're the reporter, you've already heard them once, but maybe there are words and terms you're not sure of.  They'll be in your word list before you edit.  If you're a scopist and hearing words for the first time, it's great prep.

 

[Kerry F]

I do do that, pull out spellings, but when they are reading little details like numbers and weird words that are only used once or twice, you can't get them all in advance.  And especially when they're quoting/reading at 300 WPM.

[Joyce Davis]

A real PITA, I know.  Nobody outside the profession understands what people like you go through. 

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

I can't help you because I use a scopist for every job.  I can tell you that depending how difficult the job is, I proof about 60 pages an hour.  That, of course, depends on how many quotes I have to check.  If I personally had to edit, it'd be about 40 pages an hour I bet.

I'm slow.  When my husband and I watch foreign films with subtitles, I can't keep up because I read so slow looking for typos for so long, I can't change.  I can't read fast now.  My mind has been trained to read slow and look for mistakes.

[Kerry F]

40 pages an hour listening to full audio?