| When you think of a court reporting service, you think | | | | and pre-recorded events. |
| of a stenographer in the courtroom, or a deposition, | | | | While transcribing court testimony, legal proceedings, |
| quietly keying in testimony, right? While court reporters | | | | legislative proceedings, and depositions makes sense in |
| certainly work in the courtroom, it's not unusual for a | | | | terms of documenting what was said and creating an |
| court reporter to spend more time outside of court | | | | official legal record, transcription services also make |
| than in. In fact, many court reporting services provide | | | | sense in terms of access to information. Modern court |
| services unrelated to legal proceedings. | | | | reporting services create electronic transcripts. Instead |
| Generally speaking, court reporting services cater to | | | | of searching through mountains of papers or viewing |
| the legal industry providing accurate, word-for-word | | | | hours of videotapes to find a specific passage, a |
| transcripts of testimony, depositions, arbitrations, and | | | | simple search using keyword phrases brings up related |
| other legal proceedings. These written accounts | | | | passages. |
| become part of the legal record. Court reporting | | | | When combined with real time court reporting |
| services are also used by businesses, government, | | | | technology, the possibilities are intriguing. Imagine having |
| unions, and other groups who need accurate, verbatim | | | | onscreen captioning during a live lecture series or at a |
| records of meetings, speeches, and other government | | | | public meeting. Imagine having live text of a conference |
| or business proceedings. | | | | call or other event broadcast over the Internet so that |
| Ever watch television with closed captioning or | | | | everyone in your company who needs access to the |
| "secondary audio programming" (SAP) enabled? Court | | | | proceedings has immediate access. Then, after the |
| reporters are often used to transcribe the spoken | | | | event, imagine being able to instantly call up relevant |
| word into the onscreen text that you see when | | | | passages by keying in a few keywords. |
| viewing television with these options enabled. Closed | | | | Why use court reporting services for transcribing audio |
| captioning allows deaf and hard of hearing viewers to | | | | or video, especially if outside of the courtroom? Even if |
| see what's being said - in real time. Equipped with real | | | | your transcription job does not require knowledge of |
| time court reporting equipment, a court reporter can | | | | legal terminology, using court reporting services is fast |
| transcribe the spoken word into real time text that | | | | and efficient. For example, a fast typist can type 80 to |
| appears on television screens - as the words are | | | | 100 words per minute while a court reporter is capable |
| being said. This same technology can be used at live | | | | of transcribing at a rate of 200 words per minute or |
| events, both in person as well as online. | | | | faster! |
| Reporting services can also transcribe videotaped and | | | | Court reporters still have their place in courtrooms but |
| audio records into text records. For example, if a | | | | increasingly serve the transcription needs of the legal, |
| lawyer records the initial consultation with a client, the | | | | medical, and business industries in innovative new |
| lawyer may later want that recording transcribed. | | | | ways. From providing live closed captioning to |
| Likewise, a videotaped interview, speech, or deposition | | | | transcribing live or prerecorded audio, court reporting |
| can also be transcribed after the fact. Legal, medical, | | | | services are evolving with technology and serving a |
| and business professionals often turn to court reporting | | | | wider clientele. |
| services to transcribe dictation, taped conversations, | | | | |