tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post2689183355648720734..comments2024-03-10T12:37:59.227-07:00Comments on The Plover Blog: CART, Court, and CaptioningMirabai Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16494847224950297255noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-26253742931996089402016-08-22T12:59:44.142-07:002016-08-22T12:59:44.142-07:00As a voice writer wannabe and new Dragon nerd, I h...As a voice writer wannabe and new Dragon nerd, I have learned how to overcome those homophone issues-- "Sum of all things." Go into your vocabulary editor, erase "SUM",replace it with Sum-CO, train it and now every time you need to say SUM, you speak as SUM-COM and you will always get SUM. <br /><br />Alternatively, you can create a conflict resolution in EclipseVOX and allow the AI to solve these issues. <br /><br />I think that Steno writing is awesome but the learning curve is HUGE. I think that voice writing is much harder than people believe but if a person trains hard they can get to the 180s in 3-6 months. IHateGooglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209146786050172361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-54406502720359118712016-01-21T07:33:22.339-08:002016-01-21T07:33:22.339-08:00Ok. Thank you for the quick response :-)Ok. Thank you for the quick response :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15587787925644306007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-79154397128112078222016-01-21T07:33:15.774-08:002016-01-21T07:33:15.774-08:00Ok. Thank you for the quick response :-)Ok. Thank you for the quick response :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15587787925644306007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-78783027691038792702016-01-21T05:44:52.810-08:002016-01-21T05:44:52.810-08:00Plover does none of those things. It's simply ...Plover does none of those things. It's simply a conduit from your steno machine to your operating system. You'll need to use a text editor or word processor to do whatever transcript production work you need. I know nothing about transcripts, since I've never done any court reporting (and hope I never have to!), so I made a decision to keep Plover as streamlined as possible. It works beautifully for realtime captioning, but for broadcast captioning or transcript production, you might want to choose another steno engine.Mirabai Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16494847224950297255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-63802479153415867452016-01-20T20:20:19.618-08:002016-01-20T20:20:19.618-08:00How well does this software work for doing deposit...How well does this software work for doing depositions and producing transcripts? Is it capable of creating cover pages, auto indexing, certificate page at the end, etc?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15587787925644306007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-57572948733190403972015-10-21T15:15:29.619-07:002015-10-21T15:15:29.619-07:00Plover is great for CART, but I'm afraid it...Plover is great for CART, but I'm afraid it's not set up to do television broadcast captioning. Sorry!Mirabai Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16494847224950297255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-74078694320986884192015-10-21T14:35:47.168-07:002015-10-21T14:35:47.168-07:00Is this software capable of doing live broadcastin...Is this software capable of doing live broadcasting for captioning? I am a CART writer and I am trying to transition over to captioning but the software is $6995. I am just overwhelmed with all the prices of everything.P.Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15170407107385871323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-7025027296155792042013-07-09T10:38:14.581-07:002013-07-09T10:38:14.581-07:00Oops... typing on my crappy netbook. I meant &quo...Oops... typing on my crappy netbook. I meant "a labor of love THAT will be rewarded someday." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-34129561323154536692013-07-09T10:30:17.483-07:002013-07-09T10:30:17.483-07:00I think what you are doing is wonderful. I am inte...I think what you are doing is wonderful. I am interested is seeing if I can get into the CART field (passed two 225 Q&A many many years ago; then did not want to work in the field). What may stymie me is that the requirements for CART or Captioning are much stricter than for taking down a dep not using realtime. So for the novice, they can get good clean copy with Dragon at 160 to 180 wpm easily. With sten it will not be easy to get to 160wpm or 180. Even if I get to 225 this time, it is unlikely I will meet the requirements for CART or captioning. Only 30 percent have the capability of reaching the speed to begin with; writing for CART or Captioning, I believe the capability may be 10 percent of the 30 percent who do graduate. You are truly one of the very elite, talented few who have the capability work in CART. As evidenced by your spectacularly short time spent in court reporting school before graduation. You are a natural. Very, very few writers, even those capable of graduating, can do what you do. That being said, I think your idea of bringing steno to the masses at a price they can afford is a labor of love they will be rewarded one day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-11047452582329236142012-01-27T21:24:14.138-08:002012-01-27T21:24:14.138-08:00Just for the record, people think translation is a...Just for the record, people think translation is also a solved problem. And it ain't, not by a long shot, for the same reasons you list for transcription.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152219034171337111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-76008134957811845302011-02-12T09:35:05.767-08:002011-02-12T09:35:05.767-08:00@need a second chance:
I was an RPR-CM many years ...@need a second chance:<br />I was an RPR-CM many years ago, and I want to re-enter the field too. I purchased some used equipment on eBay and it should arrive next week.<br /><br />Other than preparing for the RPR again, I am not sure what I will do after that. I'm interested in hearing about your plan. dsrAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-71825021310668679842011-02-08T14:58:26.543-08:002011-02-08T14:58:26.543-08:00I am trying to re-enter the field and would love a...I am trying to re-enter the field and would love a free or reasonable (no huge down payment) writer to start building my speed again. I can make monthly payments of $60. I eventually would like to get into captioning.need a second chancenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-43415105466307867552010-08-16T10:31:44.312-07:002010-08-16T10:31:44.312-07:00That really is quite good, Tom. Yes, it seems like...That really is quite good, Tom. Yes, it seems like for dictation, DNS can be very useful if properly trained. It's only when people insist that the leap from trained single voice dictation to multivoice natural language transcription is imminent and inevitable that I get skeptical. They're two very different settings, and the former is much easier to teach a computer how to do than the latter is.Mirabai Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16494847224950297255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-16479545431344121972010-08-02T17:44:30.007-07:002010-08-02T17:44:30.007-07:00That is really very interesting.
I tried reading ...That is really very interesting.<br /><br />I tried reading your transcribed dictation to my own DragonNaturallySpeaking that I have been using for several months for medical transcription, and it was really almost entirely accurate up to maybe 160 WPM.<br /><br />The Google speech recognition program is just a hoot -- and essentially useless.<br /><br />I do agree, that speech recognition DNS style has a long way to go before it is generally applicable, and probably can't really be truly useful without putting a human into the computer box, but it works fairly well for me in a very limited application.<br /><br />(I typed this on QWERTY keyboard -- I didn't try to dictate it)<br /><br />*******************<br /><br />Then I just read what I typed into DNS -- this is the output, without corrections -- it is close enough to be useful, but it missed "hoot."<br /><br />****************************<br /><br /><i>That is really very interesting.<br /><br />I tried reading your transcribed dictation to my own Dragon NaturallySpeaking that I have been using for several months for medical transcription, and it was really almost entirely accurate up to maybe hundred and 60 words per minute<br /><br />The Google speech recognition programs just and -- and essentially useless.<br /><br />I do agree that speech recognition DNS style has a long way to go before it is generally applicable, and probably can't really be truly useful without putting a human into the computer box, but it works fairly well for me in a limited application <br /><br />(I type this on the QWERTY keyboard -- I didn't try to dictate)</i><br /><br />Tom DuncanNeverLNGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-44647414933951298682010-06-29T12:52:45.554-07:002010-06-29T12:52:45.554-07:00Mirabai, your observation about people's Star ...Mirabai, your observation about people's Star Trek-like expectations of capabilities of computers vis-a-vis speech reminds me of what Geoffrey Pullum, a well-known linguist, wrote about his attempt to find a short, easy-to-explain definition of linguistics for lay people. He decided to start telling people that linguistics is the sort of science that you would learn if you wanted to get computers to be able to understand and produce ordinary human language. He was surprised to find that many people's reaction to this was: "Hasn't that already been done?"Tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281181286737011264.post-14138207922626767432010-06-27T09:40:03.588-07:002010-06-27T09:40:03.588-07:00Great article! I agree that something has to be do...Great article! I agree that something has to be done to bring people into the industry, and what you're proposing might just be it! I linked to your blog from my new steno student blog, hope word about this gets around. We can all take it to our personal social networks and see what happens. I haven't tried your software yet, but I'd like to.Jennihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11655574069307251911noreply@blogger.com