Entries by garyireland

Live captioning for education and higher learning

For deaf and hard of hearing students, lectures can be more than a challenge. It’s difficult enough trying to hear someone in a crowded lecture hall, but add in other factors like background noise, low-quality microphones, or difficult subject matter, and even those without hearing problems struggle. Luckily, there is a simple solution to the problem – live captioning.

Stenographer, palantypist, and transcriptionist – what’s the difference?

When you think of a stenographer, you probably picture someone sitting in a courtroom, frantically typing out everything that’s being said, but this is just a simplified version we see on TV. In reality, it’s more complicated than that, and once people start using words like typist, palantypist, and transcriptionist, then things really start to get confusing.