Many reporters are unsure whether they should choose Yes or No when setting up the Suffix Drag feature. If you’re not sure; or if you’ve ever wondered whether you’ve set this feature properly, today’s blog entry should help! First, for those unfamiliar with this translate option, there are occasions when untranslated steno appears on your […]
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At the end of last month, I had the pleasure of working with and training a wonderful group of reporters at STARCON 19 in Minneapolis. In addition to the five classes I taught, I worked with eight reporters in half-hour, one-on-one sessions to answer questions they needed to have answered, and countless others during breaks […]
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Coming up with simple but unique one-stroke steno outlines for speaker IDs, or AccelerWriters (macros executed during translation to edit from the writer) or even a unique fingerspelling alphabet can be difficult when you’re trying to avoid conflicts. Some reporters and captioners have even asked our developers to enhance future writers to include an “extra” […]
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Whenever a scopist runs spell check on a reporter’s job, they may choose to add spellings to a job, case or Personal wordlist. These entries can be very helpful to the reporter for both edit and translation. For example, suppose the word labelled appeared in the job, and the scopist knows you would prefer that […]
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When you include a standard page such as a title or certificate into your job, or when you combine separately scoped or proofed segments into a single job, if you are interrupted by CATalyst asking you, “Do you want to change the filled in field from THIS to THAT?” you may have wondered whether there […]
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If you were grading yourself as a Case CATalyst user, what marks would you give yourself? Getting a job out the door should get easier as time goes on. If you’re working just as hard as you always have but your translation rate hasn’t improved or the number of pages you can edit in […]
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Reporters use a variety of methods for organizing their jobs. Some like to store jobs by date; for example, a job taken on September 16, 2019 would go into a case named September, which is stored along with jobs from January, February, March, etc. in another case named 2019. Other reporters prefer to organize jobs […]
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We let three-time NCRA Realtime Contest Champion and 2019 Intersteno Audio Transcription World Champion Dee Boenau, FAPR, RDR, CRR, CRC, get her hands on the Luminex II a little early. After spending time writing on the new machine, the following is her review, in her own words. Have you always wondered what it would feel […]
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