How do they match: Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners

  • Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners

  • Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.

  • Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text.
  • Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.

  • Confer with court staff to clarify information.
  • Enter information into databases or software programs.
  • Provide information to the general public.
  • Record information from legal proceedings.