45th Intersteno Congress

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45th Intersteno Congress

• Vienna
• July 22-29, 2005

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Multi-Media andVerbatim Reporting

• by
• Umberto P. Lenzi
• USL International L.L.C.

Music Eagles Flight Fanfare by James Curnow
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Genesis of CAT (Computer Aided Transcription)

• 1980 - IBM PC
• 1981 MS DOS
• 1982 CAT on PC

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Software Adaptability to Languages
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Transcript Production Efficiency
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Typical A.I. Database for Phonetic Conflicts
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French Document showing Progressive Automatic
Resolution of Conflicts PARCTM applied by TeLiTor
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Advent of Windows and Graphical Presentation

• From 16 bit 256 Characters
• To 32 bits UNICODE with practically an unlimited
  number of Characters

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Modern Word Processors and Languages
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Typical Keyboard Commands of Traditional CAT
Systems

• G Global Define
• J Job Define
• T Text Global Replace
• Q Insert Question Paragraph
• A Insert Answer Paragraph

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Software Adaptability to Languages
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Keyboards Adaptability to Languages
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Modern Phonetic Keyboards
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TV Subtitles (Captioning)
The current demand for CAPTIONERS is far greater
than the available QUALIFIED steno typists.
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Audio-Sync in TeLiTorTM
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TeLiTors Transcript with Picture of the Witness
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Existing types of Video-Sync

•        Manual synchronization
•        Time-stamp synchronization
•        Voice Text (or Voice mining)
• In all 3 methods, the text must be in ASCII
• and so, adaptability to other languages is not
  possible!

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Video Sync.ed Transcript with COM Toolbar Clips
Index
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TeliSyncTM Random Playback
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TeliSync Clips Indexing and Playback
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Open Session

• Q A