What is Real-Time
Captioning?
Real-Time Captioning – or CART, Communication Access Real-Time Translation – is a communication aid, enabling professionals and students who are deaf or hard of hearing to participate and contribute effectively in meetings, workshops, conferences, lectures and the like.
What a shorthand reporter hears is written on a shorthand machine, which is attached to a laptop. The laptop translates the shorthand into English, producing a scrolling text in real-time onto the laptop screen. This text can be comfortably read by one to two participants. For two or more participants the real-time scrolling text can be projected onto a data projector.
Who uses Real-Time
Captioning?
Real-Time Captioning is used primarily by people who are hard of hearing or deaf to facilitate communication. It is particularly useful for those who do not use sign language as their primary mode of communication.
What is required to set up
Real-Time Captioning?
The reporter will have all the real-time equipment. What is needed by you:
a small table to place the laptop on,
a powerpoint for the electronic equipment
and a chair with no arms.
The reporter normally sits next to the person who is hard of hearing or deaf.
where can real-time
captioning be used?
Being a mobile service it can be used in just about any forum – meetings, conferences, workshops, lectures and teleconferences, which is where Remote Real-Time Captioning can apply…
WHAT IS REMOTE REAL-TIME
CAPTIONING?
Remote Real–Time Captioning is a service that combines our Real-Time Captioning and the Internet. It works well for those in regional and remote places. With broadband internet and Skype or Webex programs, Real-Time Captioning can be provided directly to your computer screen.
What is required to set up
Remote Real-Time Captioning?
what digital recording
formats do you accept?
MP3, WMA, Wave files and any other format of digital recording.
HOW DO I SEND MY RECORDINGS
TO REPORTER’S INK?
You can either email your recording or use a file transfer service like Dropbox or WeTransfer. We can help set these up for you.