FAQ
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 mostly used by late-deafened individuals and persons 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.
- 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 is it Real-Time Captioning 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 Real-Time Captioning?
- Laptop or PC
- Skype software downloaded (free download)
- an omnidirectional microphone
- ADSL or Broadband or Wireless
- Web Camera (optional)
What digital recording formats do we require to send via DropBox?
MP3, WMA, Wave files, DVD’s and any other format of digital recording.