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Tips and Tricks for Working with Court Reporters
By Patricia Lyons, U.S. District Court in Arizona
As a court reporter for more than 20 years, I have learned quite a bit about what it takes to make a good record. There are steps you can take to work well with court reporters and to obtain the best record for your client.
First, let me lay some foundation. Court reporters are professionals who have gone to college or vocational school to obtain their degrees or certificates. Most states, but not all, require certification. In Arizona, state certification is required; national certification is voluntary. Certified court reporters are required to obtain continuing education annually and to comply with a code of ethics.
Court reporters are unbiased and independent keepers of the record.
In addition to writing what you say, we are writing punctuation and identifying speakers. We also write notes to ourselves (perhaps to note the marking of an exhibit, correct a misstroke or make a note to check a spelling, or to get that exhibit from which the deponent was reading). If you have any questions about what we do or how we do it, feel free to ask the reporter.
There is no magic to obtaining the best possible record—and to becoming your court reporter’s favorite client. Here are some suggestions.
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Audio Mining: Where We are and What’s Next
By Alice Barrett Mack
Audio mining is a speaker-independent, speech recognition technique that is used to search audio or video files for occurrences of spoken words or phrases. The speech recognition search engine identifies words or phonemes that are spoken within the file and generates a searchable index that includes a time stamp for each important word or phoneme and its locations within the file. Essentially, it creates indices of words or speech sounds. Thus, it can enable users to search audio and video files similar to the way they use search engines to search the Internet.
Audio mining software uses two basic methods, both consisting of indexing and searching phases. Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) analyzes words or phrases to generate an index; phonetic audio mining analyzes sound patterns to generate an index and stores the phonetic content of the speech, rather than information about words.
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