How do they match: Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners

  • Official Court Reporter

  • 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.

  • File a legible transcript of records of a court case with the court clerk's office.

  • 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.