Actual Work Flow Of Court Reporter In Georgia

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Actual Work Flow Of Court Reporter In Georgia

• Submitted By GeorgiaReporting

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• A court reporter is a stenographer who is one of
  the most important parts of the judicial systems.
  
• The stenographer uses a stenotype machine to
  capture verbatim everything that is said during a
  proceeding.
• The proceeding would be a criminal, civil or any
  other a court reporter must be the highly
  skilled and trained.
• The purpose of a court reporter is to ensure that
  everyone's rights are protected during a legal
  process, whether it be in public hearings,
  tribunals, inquiry boards, in courts, or in
  legislative assemblies and committees.

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• Today, many court reporters even work outside of
  the legal arena to provide real-time
  closed/broadcast captioning services to a
  broadcast network during sporting events,
  political speeches, live entertainment events,
  conventions, and conferences. This is yet another
  way of finding a way of professional
  opportunities. There is systematic process
  through which a court reporter works. The process
  is as follows

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?Steno Dictionary

• All reporters spend most of their time while
  building their steno dictionary. This is a
  never-ending job as for every word for each
  phase the court reporter has to define the
  English translation. It is said that the more
  complete a reporters steno dictionary is, the
  better the translation is.

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The Editing Process

• Once the deposition ends, reporters scope the
  transcript. This is a process where the editing
  process takes place. In this process, the words
  that are not translated are corrected or defined.
  Most of the times proper and correct names and
  specialized time are not there in the reporters
  dictionary. Therefore, at such times these words
  need to be added. This is done in the scope
  process.

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?Proof Reading Task

• Once the scope step is completed, the next
  process is to proofread the transcript. This is
  done to make sure that there are no errors and
  typos. It is also seen that there are no spelling
  errors of specialized terms and name are written
  correctly.

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?The final Step

• Once the corrections are made through proof
  reading is done, the transcript is signed by the
  reporter which is then treated as final. This
  final transcript is then processed and sent out
  in the preferred by the client. It can be print
  or electronic.

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