VOICEWRITING IS COMING TO TRI-C
DISTANCE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY
ANOTHER COURSE THAT YOU CAN TAKE IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME
An exciting new course is making its debut Spring semester, which begins January 2009. Learn to utilize voice-recognition software to do medical transcription, CART providing, captioning and other kinds of document production work. This technology is being used across the country in a variety of ways, including court reporting, where in many states voicewriters are already working in their courtrooms.
According to the National Voicewriters Association (www.nvra.org), potential voice writers must study all of the elements of court reporting including English grammar skills, document production and word processing, legal, medical, and technical terminology, and proper legal procedure. In addition, students of voice writing must learn to listen and speak at the same time, while also identifying speakers and describing peripheral activities in the courtroom or deposition room.
A good voice writer must possess essential skills. The first is speed. Voice writers must speak very quickly. They must repeat everything that is said as well as identify speakers, insert punctuation, non-verbal responses and gestures. Additionally, voice writers are called upon to have a huge vocabulary. Our speech recognition dictionary must be broad enough to cover a wide range of words, terminology and subject matter, as well as various regional and foreign dialects.
Speech recognition technology is allowing voice writers to pursue not only court reporting careers, in courtrooms and deposition suites, but also careers as closed captioners, CART reporters (Communication Access Realtime Translation) for hearing-impaired individuals and Internet text and/or caption providers.
Speech recognition is a single-user, voice-to-text technology, meaning only one person can create each voice file. Each voice writer must create a voice file – essentially training the voice-recognition software to recognize and decipher the speaker's voice in order to transcribe from speech to screen.
Voicewriting is the technology used to convert spoken words to text. Users of this technology train voice writing or speech recognition softare to translate what is spoken into a document or to follow software commands. Medical transcriptionists, for example, may repeat the dictation that would otherwise be typed Voicewriters enjoy these careers for the flexibility they offer and the opportunity to train and work from home.
You can register for Voicewriting I now. Extra equipment needs to be purchased by the student for this class.
For more information contact:
Jen Krueger at jen.krueger@tri-c.edu
Kolleen Barnes at kolleen.barnes@tri-c.edu