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06/04/18 Presenter: Jennifer M. Bonfilio, RMR-CRC Turn Your Career Into a Star Performance Shining a Spotlight on Captioning Session 1 How it works My Story From High School OR To Court Reporter To Captioner Easy-peasy? Not

  1. 06/04/18 Presenter: Jennifer M. Bonfilio, RMR-CRC Turn Your Career Into a Star Performance Shining a Spotlight on Captioning Session 1 How it works My Story… From High School… OR To Court Reporter… To Captioner… Easy-peasy? Not so much! Where do I start? Training, Training, Training (Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!) What do I get out of it? Perks – like working from home 1

  2. 06/04/18  IC  Hourly rate  Freedom to work for many companies  Pay taxes, insurance  Have your own clients  Use Equipment & Software of your choice Don’t you get Who’s gonna hire me? sick of the news?  Employee  Steady work  Paycheck  Benefits  Required minimum hours  Equipment & Software may be provided Show Me the Money! Questions? Thank you Please join us for the next session: Sheri Smargon will give a demonstration of her captioning skills and some of the equipment we will be discussing 2

  3. 06/04/18 Watch Sheri’s Captions on your phones CaptionCast Presenter: https://www.eegicap.com/captioncast/ Jennifer M. Bonfilio, RMR-CRC Captioned by: Sheri Smargon, RDR-CRC, M.A. Event ID: FCRA Turn Your Career Into a Star Performance Shining a Spotlight on Captioning Session 2 Software: $7,000+ (CAT + Captioning) The Basics: • Eclipse Court Reporting Software and AccuCAP Captioning Software Steno Machine $700 - $5,000+ • CATalyst BCS (alone) or Broadcast Captioning Suite for caseCATalyst w/caseCATalyst Computer(s) (+ backup*) $500 - $2,500+ • Cheetah Captivator & Cheetah TurboCat Court Reporting Software 1 Television Set $100 - $1,000+ • ProCat CaptiVision • RapidText Rapid Caption Audio: Audio Amplifier $50 - $500 Alesis Multimix 6FX mixer or similar $50 - $300 • VoIP (Google Hangouts, headset required) Free Boostaroo Headphone Amplifier $10 - $50 (headset $9 - $250+) • VoIP (Skype, etc., headset required) Free USB Serial Port or Serial to USB cable $10 - $20 • CircuitWerkes TelTap $100 OR PCMCIA Serial Card Single or Dual Ports (unless • Comrex Telephone Coupler TCB-1 $180 computer comes with extra serial port; • JK Audio Inline Patch Telephone Audio Interface $270 need 1 port for writer & 1 port for modem) (The above items require an Audio Amplifier) OR Laptop Docking Station with serial port • Phone with Headset (not cordless) $10 - $200 UPS Backup Power Supply $50 - $200 • Phone amplifying system: HelloDirect or Plantronics (to connect to existing phone) $100 3

  4. 06/04/18 Hardware: $25 - $100 Captioning Alternatives USRobotics 33,600 bps to 56k External Serial Modem(s) OR comparable modem StreamText https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=IHaveADream OR type USRobotics 56k External Modem in search 1CapApp engine for online shopping options https://demo.1capapp.com/demo Text on Top OR Zoom USB Modem http://text-on-top.com/en/ iCap Internet Encoder Connector Download (Free) Graduation using StreamText imbedded into website alongside Video Questions? 4

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