Recent content by StenoKnight

No, Typewell and C-Print are very different from CART, which is also very different from CaptionMic and other voice-to-text services. Typewell and C-Print, as I understand, both work with regular computer keyboards and proprietary software that's relatively inexpensive. Their training sessions...

Hi, just coming back to this thread to say that I've written some articles touching on strengths and weaknesses of the various services. Voice Captioning Versus CART and Is CART Easier Than Court Reporting? Which is primarily targeted at students in steno schools who are considering working...

Not all CART providers offer mobile wireless CART, but some do, and it can sometimes be an advantage over remote CART, though it's still probably not quite as mobile as interpreters are. The student I CART for tried remote CART initially, but the walls of the lab were so thick that the...

I'm currently a CART provider for a fifth year pharmacy student. He prefers interpreters for his labs and CART (aka captioning) for his lectures. I do think that sometimes with very technical material CART can be more straightforward simply because the CART provider can write what they hear...

I absolutely agree there. Shoddy CART is absolutely unacceptable. Sometimes Disability offices will hire unqualified practitioners or inappropriate notetaking services because they're not willing to pay the fees of qualified CART providers. The only way to stop this from happening is to speak up...

As a CART provider/captioner myself, I'm mortified that you had to put up with substandard captions in college. Unfortunately there are far too many unqualified practitioners out there, and they reflect extremely badly on the rest of us. It requires an enormous amount of skill, experience...

I don't know about other captioning companies, but I worked as an offline captioner for two years, and at my company we never dumbed down captions. We made them as verbatim as humanly possible. We didn't usually transcribe "um" or "uh", unless they were important to the meaning, but every actual...

Last semester I CARTed a number of classes for a student at NYU. One of them was a Literature class that dealt with very complex concepts and vocabulary and unfortunately I could only CART one of its two sessions each week because I had to CART for another student at the same time on one of the...

Hi! I've used AllDeaf as a resource for several years now, searching for specific threads when I had questions on Deaf issues, but I've decided there's just too much good stuff here not to read it regularly, so I made an account and added it to my RSS reader. I'm a CART provider in New...

I'm a CART provider in New York City. I went to a court reporting school and graduated when I reached 225 words per minute on the steno keyboard. It took about a year and a half to get up to speed, but the whole time I was in school and for at least six months afterward I had to work intensely...