Speche, a service of Courtroom Connect, provides live streaming text services for broadcasts, webcasts, and remote CART events for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Use Speche as an end-to-end solution or integrate Speche’s streaming text with your existing webcast or service.
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Reporter Opportunities
From the time machine shorthand reporting was first introduced in the early 1900’s, the legal market has benefited from the speed and accuracy associated with machine shorthand reporters. Today, your realtime skills are also being utilized for medical transcription, education assistance and, perhaps most visibly, for providing captions to movies, television shows, and news programming throughout the world.
Speche’s technology is yet another example of your expanding opportunities as a realtime writer. For all the same reasons that television captions have become such an integral part of our daily lives, there is a serious need for realtime captioning over the Internet. As our world becomes more and more dependent upon the Internet for news and information, it becomes crucial that we provide access to that information to everyone, including the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Webcasts
Webcasts, by definition, are Internet broadcasts designed to address a large audience. What is streamed over the Internet can be audio, video and/or text. When text is involved as part of a multimedia presentation, it is important that it be synchronized with any other media being delivered. But don’t worry about that part; we’ll take care of it.
With the booming popularity of the Internet, captioning needs are increasing. In fact, a recent amendment to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Rule 508, provides the same type of groundwork for captions on the Internet that the original Act did for television captioning. The demand is here… and that’s where we come in: Speche and realtime reporters. You provide the input, we’ll provide the delivery. The possibilities are endless.
Remote CART
When speaking with reporters, no one is more passionate about their work than a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) reporter. Each will tell you that it’s due to the bond that develops out of personal connection and a mutual respect between the reporter and their client. Unfortunately, the economic realities associated with CART services often mean that individuals in need of this type of service cannot obtain it and the cost of travel and associated time requirements for the reporter are usually the sticking points.
Enter Speche Communications. As long as your prospective client has access to the Internet and can provide you a phone/audio feed from their event, you can now deliver the same quality service to your remote clients as you do to the ones next door. And while the “at your side†personal connection may not be there, your client’s smile will be just as broad.
Visit us at www.speche.com to get started.