With organizations moving to online conferences (to save on travel, housing, and per diem costs), many are using the services of captioning and reporting services that provide communication access real-time translation (CART).
CART refers to real-time transcription of spoken contents and sound effects-to-text translations. (Closed captioning refers to the provision of a textual equivalent of sound information — whether or not the event is live.) This translation service ensures accessibility of the real-time events for a range of web-conference participants.
Jeanette Christian of 20/20 Captioning & Reporting (based out of Topeka, Kan.) provided the following responses in a Q&A about CART recently. This company was contacted after they provided CART services for an international academic conference. This company has provided real-time reporting for more than 23 years and has been providing remote CART services for close to 11 years. Its real-time writers are located across the U.S. and can provide 24-hour services seven days a week to locations in the U.S. as well as international.
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