About Stenographic Realtime

Realtime: The Gold Standard of Stenographic Court Reporting

Realtime court reporters enhance the functioning of the judicial system in trials and everyday depositions.
A realtime court reporter can make a standard courtroom or deposition suite computer-integrated in a matter of minutes, requiring only realtime cables to hook up to the judge's and attorneys' computers.
The testimony and other oral proceedings appear instantaneously on individual computer formats or large format screens.
Judges and attorneys have immediate access to the testimony and can even perform searches for specific words, phrases, and other more complicated information in one or more documents instantly.

Beyond the Courtroom

Closed Captioning

Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART)

Broadcast captioners, also called stenocaptioners, use stenotype machines and realtime technology to produce instantaneous text, which appears on the television screen for the benefit of the more than 28 million deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans, as well as non-native speakers of English who are learning the language. It is also valuable for general use in noisy places like gyms, bars, and airports. Captioners work for local television stations and national networks providing captioning service for news, emergency broadcasts, sporting events, and entertainment programming.

Broadcast captioning offers people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing the ability to obtain news and other vital information from live television. Broadcast captioning also opens up the world to the deaf and hard-of-hearing by allowing them to interact and participate in civic and personal events, such as televised city council meetings and church services.

Communication access realtime translation, also known as CART, allows deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals full access to events and activities in areas where they were previously excluded. A growing number of realtime reporters in the United States work with deaf and hard-of-hearing students in high schools and colleges, providing an instant translation of lectures andclassroom discussions into readable text.

From church services to business meetings, CART providers produce a realtime account of what is said for the benefit of persons needing this service.

To find a Realtime reporter near you, please visit NCRA's Professional Services Locator.