Alternative Realtime Careers: Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What is this book about?
- Why would a court reporter care?
- The History and Theory of Realtime
- Where did realtime come from?
- How does realtime translation work?
- What makes a good captioner or CART writer?
- Closed Captioning
- What is captioning?
- Where captions come from [see excerpt]
- Where captions go
- The look of the captions
- Non-English captioning
- Captioning software
- Credits and logos
- CART
- What is CART?
- What your customers really want
- Making your text look good
- Types of video
- CART equipment
- A final piece of CART advice
- Bloopers
- Anatomy of a Blooper
- More bloopers, just for fun
- Getting Started
- Preparing for an alternative realtime career
- Writing a résumé or CV
- Cover letters
- Making a demo tape
- Applying for a realtime job
- Captioning From Home
- Your home office
- Services to the house
- At-home captioning equipment
- Going Solo
- Starting your own business
- Marketing and sales
- What to charge
- Your Web site
- Calling Deaf People on the Phone
- Threats, Real and Perceived
- Speech recognition
- Sign-language interpreters
- The Law
- State laws
- Federal captioning laws
- The ADA
- The TDCA
- Telecommunications Act of 1996
- Other captioning-related laws
- Case Studies
- Network news
- Local news
- Educational CART
- Sports captioning
- Local government
- The U.S. Senate
- Church captioning
- Bilingual captioning
- Captioned theater
- Resources
- Software & Hardware Vendors
- Product Cross-Reference
- Captioning/CART Web sites
- Bibliography
- Glossary
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