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By Deanna Baker, RMR, Flagstaff, Ariz. There are many differences not only logistically but also with the equipment used in both of these settings. While doing remote captioning, most often from your home, you will need different equipment than you would for on-site work. The basic equipment consists mainly of a computer with captioning software, telephone lines, modems, back-up phone lines, back…
Categories: Captioning
By Gary Robson Censorship and the First Amendment may be one of the most misunderstood concepts in America today. In the context of television, it is now tightly interwoven with closed captioning in several ways. To understand the issue, let's start with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It states, "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." The k…
Categories: Captioning, Advocacy
By Tammie Shedd Naming your company. Developing a logo. Working as an independent contractor or hiring other captioners. The type of captioning software to use. These are just some of the issues you have to consider when starting your captioning company. Starting a business for the first-time business owner can be daunting. One of the first things you will need to do is name your business. Consid…
By Michele B. Pennington So you want to break into the profession of broadcast captioning. Or maybe you are looking to transfer your court reporting skills to this growing field. Or perhaps you have been captioning for a number of years, and are just looking to join a new firm. We spoke to a number of major national broadcast captioning companies and asked them what they looked for when they hire…
Categories: Captioning, Employment Opportunities
Realtime Coach is a revolutionary online learning system that helps both students and working reporters and captioners increase their writing speed, break through plateaus, and diagnose problem areas. Simply hook up your writer to your CAT-enabled desktop or laptop, open a web browser, and log in to the Realtime Coach learning environment. There you'll find professionally produced audio and video…
Categories: Certification and Testing
NCRA certificate programs Certificate holders maintain their credential by: maintaining NCRA membership or CLVS certification AND fulfilling the following continuing education requirements: Trial Presentation Certificate continuing education requirement: Certificate holders must earn 1.0 units in formal CEU technology-related activities every three-year cycle or attend the …
Categories: Continuing Education, Certificates, Certificatons
To combat the issue of student shortages and to respond to the increasing demand for reporters who are realtime trained, NCRA has taken a multifaceted hands-on approach to advancing education for court reporters. NCRA's efforts have led to a dramatic improvement, with student enrollment increasing almost 38 percent at NCRA-approved programs after an almost decade-long decline in enrollment. Outrea…
Categories: Advocacy, Schools
How does digital recording work? The use of recording equipment to produce a record of legal proceedings has evolved over its history. The systems are no longer just analog tape systems that capture all the voices onto one tape. They have evolved into digital audio recording systems that utilize multiple channels and are capable of recording each individual who is speaking on a different trac…
Categories: Advocacy
Over the past 20 years, members have grown increasingly concerned about the inroads made by electronic and digital recording within the legal system. Due to this interest, NCRA has commissioned studies on this topic from time to time. In 1992, NCRA commissioned a study from the Justice Research Institute (JRI), an independent judicial research group. Given the state of technology and prevailing co…
Categories: JCR