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Current Trend in Medical Transcription Jobs

In the last 10 years, medical transcription industry jobs have been reducing compared to the last few years back.  The main reason for this is voice recognition technology is growing day by day as well as companies are reducing comparatively less job flow because of alternative database management methods such as partial dictations etc. This change I personally could feel in the last 5 years.  If I resign my job for any reasons such as increased salary or any other reasons I could get another medical transcription job easily in 10 days' time, but nowadays getting a new job in transcription field is getting tougher compared to a few years back trend. When I joined as a medical transcription trainee in an institution in Tamilnadu in 2006, companies were asking 98% as the accuracy score level to pass as a trainee to promote live production to a worker.  This accuracy score in a few years had increased to 98.5, and now it is increased to 99.5 in some leading companies. Ac