Future stenographer question

[S. Raybourne]

I was wondering if Plover can be used professionally?

That is can I take it into a courtroom or do live transcription with it, without moving to something marketed?

Thank you.

Spencer

[Mirabai Knight]

Yep, I've been using Plover exclusively for live captioning since about 2011, I think.

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[Quaverly H. Rothenberg]

Plover is for the writing aspect only, and legal transcription requires a lot of specific formatting and bells and whistles to efficiently finalize a transcript, so you would likely use it in combination with a professional CAT software for court work.  Some of us use Microsoft Word with lots of customizations (macros) to achieve the same effect, but there is no affordable opensource version of that available yet and it is tricky to build on your own.

And I believe some courtrooms may require something marketed for their live feeds, like Catalyst or Eclipse.  That is generally listed in the job posting wherever it's required.  

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[Pryor Crossley]

Absolutely, you can use Plover for CART-Captioning jobs (I have been using PLOVER as a CART Captioner for close to ten years). Regarding using it in a legal setting, Plover does keep a copy of your "take" in raw steno on your computer -- not the translated notes, but there are still a handful of reporters who only write on a manual machine with paper notes alone.  You can format MS-Word with legal format (also check out this video: https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Legal-Transcript#Recording-and-Preparing-a-Legal-Transcript). Courts require a multi-storage format, and each state may have their own requirements for storing notes, backing up files, and transcripts.

- Mark Pryor Crossley, RID, CSC/SC:L, NAD/Mstr & CCRA/CCG

[Glen Warner]

I would think that you should be able to get away with using a Word template with the same settings that your state requires in the way of fonts, font sizes, margins, borders, etc. for both depositions and the various court's required format settings.

Your agency or state's court reporting association might have templates that you can download (make sure you name the template appropriately and ensure it's locked, so that Word (or whatever you use) would be forced to create a new document with the same settings, without the lock).

It might be interesting to see if there are any certified court reporters using Plover on the job anywhere ....