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06/04/18 Presenter: Jennifer M. Bonfilio, RMR-CRC Turn Your Career Into a Star Performance Shining a Spotlight on Captioning Session 1 How it works My Story From High School OR To Court Reporter To Captioner Easy-peasy? Not

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Turn Your Career Into a Star Performance Shining a Spotlight on Captioning

Session 1

Presenter: Jennifer M. Bonfilio, RMR-CRC

My Story… From High School… To Court Reporter… To Captioner… Easy-peasy? Not so much!

How it works

OR Where do I start? Training, Training, Training (Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!)

What do I get

  • ut of it?

Perks – like working from home

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Who’s gonna hire me?

IC Hourly rate Freedom to work for many companies Pay taxes, insurance Have your own clients Use Equipment & Software of your choice Employee Steady work Paycheck Benefits Required minimum hours Equipment & Software may be provided

Don’t you get sick of the news?

Show Me the Money!

Questions?

Thank you

Please join us for the next session: Sheri Smargon will give a demonstration of her captioning skills and some of the equipment we will be discussing

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Turn Your Career Into a Star Performance Shining a Spotlight on Captioning

Session 2

Presenter: Jennifer M. Bonfilio, RMR-CRC Captioned by: Sheri Smargon, RDR-CRC, M.A.

Watch Sheri’s Captions on your phones CaptionCast https://www.eegicap.com/captioncast/ Event ID: FCRA The Basics: Steno Machine $700 - $5,000+ Computer(s) (+ backup*) $500 - $2,500+ 1 Television Set $100 - $1,000+

Software: $7,000+ (CAT + Captioning)

  • Eclipse Court Reporting Software and AccuCAP Captioning

Software

  • CATalyst BCS (alone) or Broadcast Captioning Suite for

caseCATalyst w/caseCATalyst

  • Cheetah Captivator & Cheetah TurboCat Court Reporting

Software

  • ProCat CaptiVision
  • RapidText Rapid Caption

Audio:

  • VoIP (Google Hangouts, headset required) Free

(headset $9 - $250+)

  • VoIP (Skype, etc., headset required) Free
  • CircuitWerkes TelTap $100
  • Comrex Telephone Coupler TCB-1 $180
  • JK Audio Inline Patch Telephone Audio Interface $270

(The above items require an Audio Amplifier)

  • Phone with Headset (not cordless) $10 - $200
  • Phone amplifying system: HelloDirect or Plantronics

(to connect to existing phone) $100 Audio Amplifier $50 - $500 Alesis Multimix 6FX mixer or similar $50 - $300 Boostaroo Headphone Amplifier $10 - $50 USB Serial Port or Serial to USB cable $10 - $20 OR PCMCIA Serial Card Single or Dual Ports (unless computer comes with extra serial port; need 1 port for writer & 1 port for modem) OR Laptop Docking Station with serial port UPS Backup Power Supply $50 - $200

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Hardware: $25 - $100 USRobotics 33,600 bps to 56k External Serial Modem(s) OR comparable modem OR type USRobotics 56k External Modem in search engine for online shopping options OR Zoom USB Modem iCap Internet Encoder Connector Download (Free) Captioning Alternatives StreamText https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=IHaveADream 1CapApp https://demo.1capapp.com/demo Text on Top http://text-on-top.com/en/

Graduation using StreamText imbedded into website alongside Video

Questions?