Closed Captioning, also known as Broadcast Closed Captioning, is the realtime court reporting profession which allows people who are deaf or hearing impaired to read captions of live programming on the television.Closed captioning is typically taught in
COURT REPORTING SCHOOLS both traditional and homestudy. Realtime court reporters use their skill and special translation software to provide captions of television programs such as news, emergency broadcasts, sporting events, and other live programs. The broadcast closed captioner, using his or her realtime court reporting school training, allows hearing impaired individuals to receive all the entertainment and information broadcast across the air waves. When we have national emergencies such as hurricanes, tornadoes, or any emergency requiring a swift response, thanks to closed captioners using their realtime court reporting training, the 28 million hearing impaired people in the United States are now able to receive all the same information to which all non-hearing impaired people have access.

      Realtime Broadcast Closed Captioners are writing as the program is being broadcast. Therefore, there is no opportunity to edit or change a mistake before the viewer sees the caption. Mistakes in text may occur when there is difficult to understand audio or simply because the closed captioner mis-strokes on the stenograph machine. When mistakes do occur they may change the meaning of what the speaker is saying, even though it may be only one word the closed captioner did not hear, or mis-stroked. Most closed captioning companies require 98% accuracy from their realtime court reporters. Again this skill is learned in court reporting schools.

      Surveys of national captioning companies, broadcast closed captioners, and realtime court reporters and court reporting firms indicate that the voice recognition, speech recognition, technology has not been successful, and national firms or local firms are not using this technology.
We recommend that before you enter voice recognition trainining or steno mask training that you contact national captioning companies and state associations to verify if steno mask voice recognition is accepted in your state. For more information on voice recognition, and stenomask court reporting click here.