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45th Intersteno Congress

Vienna July 22-29, 2005

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Multi-Media and“Verbatim” Reporting

byUmberto P. Lenzi

USL International L.L.C.

Music: “Eagle’s 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 CharactersTo 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 DefineJ = Job DefineT = Text Global ReplaceQ = Insert Question ParagraphA = 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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TeLiTor’s 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 ASCIIIn all 3 methods, the text must be in ASCII and so, adaptability to other languages adaptability to other languages

is not possibleis 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