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Now that captioning has been proven as an essential aid
in this Information Age, the immediate need to train more captioners to provide this service becomes quite
apparent. Becoming a realtime captioner
requires being trained first in
court reporting and then learning the captioning applications.
The two things that will sell the idea of becoming a captioner to anyone looking for a great career
is that captioners love their job and are well compensated for
their work.
Now it is up to the court reporting schools to recruit and train more students in
both the growing fields of court reporting and captioning. Anyone wishing to become a captioner must
first receive a thorough court reporting training.
This training takes the typical student between two and five years. (It is self-paced based on skill acquired.) Many students receive their state certification
and national certification before deciding to turn their skills to captioning, and
at that stage they are just about ready to step into a captioning job. On-the-job training is provided by the employer,
as each company has their own methods and protocols.
The court reporting schools are just beginning to offer captioning as a career
choice.
One new area that has more need for realtime captioners than
available captioners in the United States is captioning media produced in Spanish.
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