My scoping specialty is providing daily trial copy for official court reporters in both federal and state courts. I have seen a few forum posts here and there about realtime scoping, where the scopist is either at the same location as the court reporter, or is working from a remote location. I have been hoping that one of my clients would get involved in this, as I love to try new things and was quite interested in how this all worked. This week, my wish came true.
One of my clients took a seminar a week or two ago and now we are starting to experiment with it. We are using GoToMyPC. She is set up as the host computer and I log in to her account. Once I am logged in, a screen comes up that shows whatever she is seeing on her computer at that moment. We both use Advantage Total Eclipse CAT software, and I can watch the steno notes appear in the notebar to the right of the screen as she is writing them, and the translated text appears in the usual place to the left of that. The audio is streamed in and the quality is very good. There are options for the screen appearance, and we are using the split screen. I use the top half to go in and edit what she has just written.
I am very excited about this technological advancement and actually find it quite fascinating to participate in! Not only is realtime scoping more interesting to me than regular scoping, but the page rate is considerably higher. It's like getting paid to play!
I'd enjoy hearing from other scopists who are scoping realtime for their clients. Please feel free to contact me through this blog or e-mail me at scopist@accuratescoping.com.
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2 comments:
Trials are very important not even for court reporting services in and around Mexico City, but in every other country.
muriel izhich
Well done!
This post is really interesting and easy to understand about court reporting.
Thanks for all of your wonderful posts!
Arkansas Court Reporter
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