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Florida does not license court reporters. There is no state board to apply to, no state exam to sit for, and no state application fee standing between you and...

$72,420. That is the median annual wage for court reporters and simultaneous captioners in the most recent federal data, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

In May 2025, NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology) paused its court reporting program in Edmonton. It was the last of its kind in Canada.

In May 2025, NAIT in Edmonton paused its court reporting program. It was the last accredited program of its kind in Canada. There is no longer a Canadian...

Voice writing is the same skill on both sides of the border. A reporter wears a stenomask, repeats everything said in a legal proceeding, and produces a...

In a deposition room, someone is speaking who is not the witness, not the attorney, and not a party to the case. She is repeating every word said in the room...

Stenography takes 2 to 4 years to reach working speed. Voice writing takes 3 to 6 months. Both produce the same certified transcript, in the same courtroom,...

When a judicial circuit cannot staff its proceedings, it puts the problem in writing. Tampa's 13th Judicial Circuit did exactly that in Administrative Order...

6:40 a.m. The alarm goes off before the coffee maker does. The job on the calendar is a seven-hour deposition in a construction defect case, downtown Tampa,...

Three to six months. That is the figure industry sources quote for voice writing training to working speed, and it is roughly right.

No court reporter has ever been turned away from a deposition for lacking a bachelor's degree. Nobody in the room asks. The attorneys care about one thing,...

One full deposition day commonly produces 150 to 250 transcript pages. That single number explains almost everything about why deposition work pays better than...

A court reporter can put a witness under oath. A transcriptionist cannot.

Picture a cup roughly the size of a large coffee mug, lined with sound-absorbing foam, with a microphone mounted inside it. Some models are hand-held. Some...

A deposition starts at 9:00 a.m. The witness is in Orlando. Defense counsel is in Chicago. Plaintiff's counsel is in a hotel room in Atlanta. The reporter is...

Write "I have lived in Atlanta, Georgia since 1985" when the dictation said "I have lived in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1985" and you have just lost a point. Drop...

Fifteen minutes of audio. Three hours and forty-five minutes of transcription.

More than 1.7 million court proceedings in California have gone forward without a verbatim record since January 2023. Not because anyone decided the record did...