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.
What you’d do
- Provide transcripts of proceedings upon request of judges, lawyers, or the public.
- 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.
- Record depositions and other proceedings for attorneys.
- Ask speakers to clarify inaudible statements.
- Proofread transcripts for correct spelling of words.
- File a legible transcript of records of a court case with the court clerk's office.
- Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats.
Skills that matter
- Active Listening
- Writing
- Reading Comprehension
- Monitoring
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
How to get there
Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree
Also called
- Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR)
- Court Reporter
- Court Stenographer
- Official Court Reporter
- Captioner
- Court Recorder
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