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Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.

Currently Employed: Not Available

Yearly Projected Openings: Not Available

Typical Hourly Wage: $16.29 - $29.95

Typical Annual Salary: $33,900 - $62,300

• Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.
• Take notes in shorthand or use a stenotype or shorthand machine that prints letters on a paper tape.
• Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text.
• Provide transcripts of proceedings upon request of judges, lawyers, or the public.
• Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats.
• File a legible transcript of records of a court case with the court clerk's office.
• Ask speakers to clarify inaudible statements.
• File and store shorthand notes of court session.
• Record depositions and other proceedings for attorneys.
• Respond to requests during court sessions to read portions of the proceedings already recorded.

• Desktop computers
• Notebook computers
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Photocopiers

• Data base user interface and query software
• Enterprise resource planning ERP software
• Time accounting software
• Voice recognition software
• Word processing software