Real-Time Reporting
Our certified reporters have the experience and training necessary to accurately provide Real-Time services for your next deposition or hearing.
What is Real-Time reporting?
Real-Time is a contemporaneous transcript of spoken dialogue that is transmitted to laptop computers through special cables connected to the court reporter’s stenograph machine.
Why is Real-Time reporting convenient and important to utilize?
Utilizing Real-Time capabilities, along with LiveNote™ software, allows for attorneys, judges, witnesses, or anyone with a laptop to simultaneously read the spoken dialogue written by the court reporter, with a minimal delay. This allows for convenient reference back to previous statements without taking copious notes. In addition to legal applications, Real-Time is utilized in closed captioning for the hearing impaired. President Bush enacted the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990. This technology provides the hearing impaired with another tool they could use besides sign language. Later, the Telecommunications Act mandated that all major live television programming would be captioned by January 1, 2006.
What is LiveNote™ software?
LiveNote™ is software that enables anyone connected to a court reporter's laptop through special cables, to view and annotate the reporter's instantaneous translation of the proceedings. This is not necessarily the final format of the transcript. At times, “untranslate” words that aren’t in the reporter's dictionary will appear either phonetically or in stenograph strokes on the laptop screen. In the transcript’s final form, it will later be edited, proofread, and delivered as final, without “untranslate” words.